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Thursday 11 September 2014 • 16 Dhu’l-Qa’da 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6185 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Cabinet panel to check Emir meets Turkish Foreign Minister safety of petrol stations Committee to upgrade standards and specifications

DOHA: The State Cabinet has the existing stations are comply- incident took place at one of them decided to set up a committee ing with the upgraded standards late in February this year. to assess and regularly monitor and specifications involving health After the incident, restau- the safety of petrol filling and and safety. rants and cafeterias within the service stations. Non-compliance is to be dealt precincts of a petrol station have Strict monitoring will be with seriously. How far petrol sta- been barred from using LPG done of how these stations store tions are polluting the environ- cylinders and tanks. They must fuel and how they fill up petrol ment is also to be checked and instead use electric ovens. in customers’ vehicles, Qatar made sure that doesn’t happen The sale of transparent cook- The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Turkey Mevlut News Agency (QNA) reported anymore. ing gas cylinders was also banned Cavusoglu at Al Bahr Palace yesterday. Discussions dealt with bilateral ties and ways of enhancing them. yesterday. The Cabinet had actually issued by supermarkets operating within More importantly, the com- a draft decision earlier ordering the precinct of a petrol station. mittee will be deciding which the formation of the above-men- The decision was, however, commercial activities should be tioned committee and the State revoked in respect of some petrol housed within the precincts of Cabinet, at its weekly meeting stations later. Obama poised a petrol station and which one yesterday, endorsed it. Members of the Central GCC discusses equal should be removed. The committee is to be a per- Municipal Council (CMC) raised to authorise air Presently, many petrol stations manent feature as a petrol sta- the issue of safety of petrol sta- double as commercial complexes tion monitoring agency, it is tions in the aftermath of the late raids against IS with people crowding them as understood. February incident and demanded rights for citizens they boast eateries, supermarkets The government’s move to strict monitoring by the authori- WASHINGTON: US President and even laundries. form the committee follows media ties concerned. DOHA: Initiatives are under of ‘Mawatina’. According to Barack Obama seemed poised The committee is to be set up reports that not all petrol stations They said that the licence of way to make sure that one GCC Kuwait News Agency (Kuna), the to authorise air strikes against at the Ministry of Energy and in the country are safe. those petrol stations that are country treats the citizens of the GCC Secretary-General Abdul the Islamic State in Syria yes- Industry and will be tasked with Local newspapers have been not safe should be cancelled and other as its own in all matters Lateef Al Zayani said that the terday, ahead of a speech to upgrading standards and specifi- talking of the need to upgrade the eateries be removed from the including health, education, and objectives of ‘Mawatina’ would be brace his nation for a long duel cations for petrol filling and serv- safety standards for petrol sta- premises of all filling and service property and business ownership. achieved with the setting up of the with the jihadists. ice stations. tions and ensure compliance by stations without any exception. A two-day workshop of the youth GCC common market. Free move- In a much-anticipated White The panel will check how far all of them after a devastating THE PENINSULA is on in Kuwait and its title is ‘The ment within the GCC region, free- House address, Obama was also GCC and Mawatina’. Mawatina dom to choose place of residence expected to announce a plan to in Arabic means citizenship. Its in any GCC state and the right to rebuild Iraq’s splintered army. concept is that GCC states treat employment in all member-states He called the Custodian of the 26 Karwa buses gutted in fire citizens of member-countries as are the essential aspects of the con- Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah equals in all matters and set up a cept of ‘Mawatina’. bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi common market and give prefer- Al Zayani said that there are Arabia, a pivotal member of the ence in jobs to GCC nationals. 25,000 GCC citizens employed in coalition he is building to battle The concept is old and meet- member-states that are not their IS, and gathered top defence and ings of officials and the youth home countries. They are the intelligence chiefs, while finalising from the GCC states on how to beneficiary of pension schemes a strategy for the kind of prolonged speed up the efforts of regional in those countries. The number new intervention in the Middle integration take place from time of GCC banks with cross-border East he has always abhorred. to time. branches (with branches in mem- Obama will use his speech at The basic idea is to reduce ber-states) has reached 26 from 0100 GMT today to warn that the unemployment among the youth just a few some years ago. fight against IS could be prolonged. in the region by encouraging inte- GCC countries have provided “You will hear from the President gration efforts whereby member- business and industrial loans to how the US will pursue a compre- states provide job opportunities nationals of other GCC countries hensive strategy to degrade and to locals. Qatar News Agency to the extent of a staggering ultimately destroy IS,” an official (QNA) reported yesterday that $1.5bn, said the secretary-general. said. The plan will include US mili- experts and advisers from the Similarly, there are 100,000 tary action against Islamic State GCC secretariat-general will GCC citizens who own property in forces and new support for the tell the workshop how far the other GCC states. There are over opposition in Syria and the new project of regional integration 40,000 GCC students enrolled in government in Iraq. The New York (Mawatina) has reached. other Gulf states. The secretary- Times said Obama was ready to The objective is to seek the general said that trade among sign off on air strikes in Syria to The burnt-out fleet of Karwa buses at Karwa depot in Abu Hamour. Mowasalat said yesterday that the fire views of the youth on how to best GCC states had reached a record compliment those carried out on on Tuesday evening destroyed 26 buses. All the buses were out of service since several months. The cause to achieve regional integration as $100bn annually. Islamic State targets in Iraq. AFP See also page 10 of the fire is under investigation. Report on page 4 ABDUL BASIT enshrined within the framework THE PENINSULA

Tough rescue Israel opens five British PM begs Scots not to criminal probes on break up ‘family of nations’ Gaza war conduct EDINBURGH: British Prime Minister poll released yesterday evening showed 53 per- David Cameron yesterday begged Scots not cent of Scots would vote against a split, with TEL AVIV: Israel’s military said yesterday to rip apart the United Kingdom’s “family of 47 percent intending to opt for independence that it had opened five criminal investiga- nations”, flying to Scotland to man the bar- — unchanged from its last survey on August tions into its Gaza war operations, including ricades against a surge in support for inde- 28. The figures from the poll, carried out by attacks that killed four Palestinian children pendence eight days before a referendum. Survation for the Daily Record newspaper, on a beach and 17 people at a UN school. Cameron appealed to Scots to use their excluded 10 percent of undecided. Major-General Dan Efroni, Israel’s chief heads and their hearts when they voted on British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, military prosecutor, has ordered the armed September 18. He reminded them of their who leads the Liberal Democrats, and opposition forces’ investigative teams to look into a total shared history and bonds with England, Wales Labour Party leader Ed Miliband also crossed of 99 Gaza war incidents, the military said. and Northern Ireland — twice evoking World the border to shore up support. All three par- A senior officer, briefing foreign reporters, War Two and the fight against Hitler. ties have offered Scotland greater autonomy as said five cases in which criminal charges could He also warned that an independent Scotland an enticement to vote against independence. be brought include an air strike of a Gaza beach could not keep the pound currency, jobs would The prime minister, whose job may be on the on July 16 in which four boys were killed and head south, and the country’s security be weak- line if he loses Scotland, warned Scots a vote tank fire on a school run by the United Nations ened. “I would be heartbroken if this family of for secession would be forever. Cameron held Relief and Works Agency in the town of Beit nations was torn apart,” said Cameron, speaking out the promise of more power for Scotland if Hanoun on July 24 in which 17 people died. to staff of the Scottish Widows financial institu- Scots voted “No”. “It really will be the best of both The officer said the other criminal probes tion in the capital Edinburgh. worlds,” he said. “Scotland is a nation, an incred- launched by the armed forces were examin- Cameron’s visit was a sign of the panic ible nation, strong, proud, with an extraordinary ing the fatal shooting of a Palestinian woman that has gripped the British ruling elite over history but also part a family of nations. Please outside the battle zone, an alleged assault by the possible disintegration of the 307-year- don’t think that the rest of the United Kingdom Civilians transport an injured man on a motorbike after what activists troops on a teenager and the suspected theft old union since two polls in the past showed is indifferent. We care passionately.” said were air strikes by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Al of money from a Gaza home. No decision had the campaign for independence, led by Alex The surge in support for independence over Assad, in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus, yesterday. The toll yet been made on whether to open a criminal Salmond’s Scottish National Party, gaining recent weeks has also discomfited investors. in two air raids on Duma province rose to 25, including 10 children. In investigation into the heavy shelling that killed support to run neck-and-neck with the “No” Sterling hit a 10-month low against the dollar eastern Deir Ezzor province, Syrian war planes continued aerial raids 150 Palestinians in the southern Rafah area campaign, which until a few weeks ago was and a three-month low against the euro yesterday. on August 1 after the suspected capture of an looking comfortably ahead. REUTERS against the provincial capital. See also page 10 Israeli soldier, the officer said. REUTERS There was some relief for unionists when a See also page 11 THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2014 HOME 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Qatar Airways Cargo adds new destinations Brussels, Shanghai services from October DOHA: Qatar Airways Cargo 777 freighter frequency will be chocolates, and mineral fuels, is set to continue its expan- added on the Doha–Hong Kong including oil, precious stones, sion with the launch of two new route, bringing up the weekly fre- pearls and metals. freighter destinations, Brussels quencies to 14. Major industries in Shanghai in Belgium and Shanghai in “The new Qatar Airways are the retail industry and heavy China. Brussels will be served Cargo services will create excit- industries such as steel-making four times weekly by the Airbus ing opportunities for businesses, and auto manufacture, high-tech A330F freighter, effective from especially in the pharmaceutical and electronics. Shanghai is also October 1. The freighter will industry in both these countries. a leading producer of ethylene, fly via Entebbe to Brussels on Importers and exporters can plastics, microcomputers, inte- Wednesdays and Sundays and via also benefit from the increased grated circuits and mobile phones. Nairobi to Brussels on Mondays capacity introduced on both Qatar Airways Cargo com- and Fridays. these trade lanes,” said Ulrich pleted the transition from a A three-times weekly non-stop Ogiermann, Qatar Airways Chief manually handled cargo environ- Boeing 777 freighter service will Officer Cargo. ment to a fully automated cargo operate on the Doha-Shanghai- Major exports from Belgium terminal at Hamad International Doha route, effective October are pharmaceuticals, automo- Airport when it moved to the new 2. In addition, with effect from tives, perishables, optical, tech- state-of-the-art facility. October 1, an additional Boeing nical and medical apparatus, THE PENINSULA Es’hailSat wins Satellite Operator award

PARIS/DOHA: Es’hailSat, the Qatar Satellite Company, has been awarded “Newcomer Satellite Operator of the Year” at the 2014 World Satellite Business event in Paris. The ceremony for the 11th Awards for Excellence in Satellite Communications took place during the official luncheon hosted by The Boeing Company at the Westin Hotel. The Awards for Excellence are based on a performance analysis of the satellite market players and assessed by a jury of indus- try experts from the publications Ali Al Kuwari, Chief Executive Officer of Es’hailSat, speaking after receiving Satellite Finance and Space News the award in Paris. as well as Euroconsults’ analyst team. region and then globally and we are 2, and are working on designs for Ali Al Kuwari, Chief Executive well on our way to achieving this. our own satellite control centre in Officer of Es’hailSat said: “We are Es’hail 1 is currently broadcasting Doha. This is a strong foundation immensely grateful and proud to channel bouquets for premium on which we can continue to build receive this award from our peers broadcasters such as Al Jazeera a world-class satellite operator and in the international satellite indus- and beIN Sports. We have just center of excellence in the Mena try. Our goal is to become a major announced the procurement con- region”. satellite player, first in the Mena tract for our next satellite, Es’hail THE PENINSULA

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PM receives Turkish FM Emir greets Khamenei on successful surgery

DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has sent a cable of greetings to the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei on the occasion of the successful surgery he under- went, wishing him a speedy recov- ery and good health. The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani also sent a similar The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser cable to the Supreme Leader of bin Khalifa Al Thani with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Mevlut the Islamic Republic of Iran Ali Cavusoglu in Doha yesterday. Khamenei. QNA Qatar 2022 projects showcased in London We’re ahead of schedule in infrastructure: Al Khater

MANCHESTER: The was very warm outside. of football. For the players, heat Supreme Committee for “We were very happy with the won’t be an issue”, he said. Delivery & Legacy (SC) show- results and we’re pressing ahead Al Khater added: “We will have cased the progress being made not just with the cooling but with cooled stadiums, training pitches on infrastructure delivery everything. We have spent a lot and cooled public areas for the ahead of the 2022 FIFA World of money on infrastructure. Our fans. There is a divide but that Cup Qatar at the Soccerex Metro system is in full swing doesn’t surprise me. Some people Global Convention currently in and a lot of work is being done will say its tradition and this is session in Manchester . on roads”, he said. the way it must be. The world is Nasser Al Khater, Executive Al Khater noted that the two divided. I would like to see a show Director, Communications and stadiums are under construction of hands in here to see how many Marketing, outlined the SC’s and by the end of the year we will people think it’s unthinkable to vision as Qatar gets ready to host have another three. “We’re ahead host in the summer (around half). the first ever Fifa World Cup in of schedule in terms of infrastruc- On support of the Arab world, the Middle East. He was inter- ture. We’re in a good place and Al Khater said that there is a lot viewed on stage by distinguished delivering ahead of time. of football tradition and passion broadcaster Sir David Davies. “We wanted to make sure we in the Arab world. The support “We have had an open-air air had local companies involved. We is there. Everyone has a feeling cooled stadium in Qatar at Al realised we needed international of pride.It needs to come to the Sadd since 2008, so the concept companies who had built stadiums Middle East. The time is right for is real and works”, Al Khater said. of these magnitude in the past. We it, he added. “During the World Cup, we looked at joint ventures and this On crticism about labour issue, operated our 2014 Brazil Fan is a model we’re following. So far Al Khater said: “We try to clarify Zone, an incredible facility where regional companies are involved as the facts. There has not been a we had more than 10,000 people well, bidding for projects. single fatality on any World Cup coming to watch games. Inside “We want the ideal solution project. We’re not running away the temperature was lowered to for the World Cup with the min- or saying there are no problems. between 12-15 degrees while it imum of disruption for the rest QNA THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2014 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

26 Karwa buses Fire destroys car Social security gutted in fire DOHA: Public transport company Mowasalat said yesterday that a fire that broke out in the Karwa bus depot in Abu Hamour on Tuesday allowances evening destroyed 26 buses but has not affected the company’s regular services. All the buses gutted in the fire were out of service since several months, to be doubled the company said in a statement. None of the buses in operation was affected. Emir issues directives to cabinet The cause of the fire was not known and is under investigation, DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh regard for other GCC countries. said the company. Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has Meanwhile, the cabinet, chaired “The fire broke out at the parking issued directives that the allow- by the Prime Minister and Interior ground where buses which are not in ances for the beneficiaries of social Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin operation were parked. The damaged security be raised. Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, rati- fleet were around 26 from old buses to The Emir has asked the State fied a draft law on the issuance of a be scrapped and were not operational Cabinet to take necessary measures safety manual for small cargo ships since many months. Vehicles that are in this regard, Qatar News Agency that are not covered by international in operation are safe,” said the state- (QNA) reported yesterday. maritime treaties in GCC states, and ment. The statement added that “this According to Al Sharq, it is likely submitted it to the Advisory Council. incident does not in any way affect the allowances may be doubled from The draft law includes provisions regular operation” and “services con- the current QR2,250 ($617.87) on on the implementation of the manual tinue without any interruption”. The average to between QR4,000 and and means of inspecting vessels and fire broke out at around 9pm. The QR5,000 a month. The daily said issuing and renewing safety certifi- civil defence team reached the spot that in some poor families, women cates as well as ships’ safe equilibrium, in 10 minutes and was able to con- A car belonging to a parent caught fire at the entrance of a primary school in Doha yesterday. None get monthly social security allow- fire prevention, rescue equipment, trol the blaze in less than one hour was injured in the incident, the Supreme Education Council (SEC) said in its Twitter account. The ance of QR900 each, while children wireless communication, navigation without any human loss, added the Civill Defence team rushed to the spot and doused the fire. get QR540 each. These doles will now safety and pollution prevention. The statement. THE PENINSULA increase. According to the daily, the cabinet ratified a draft decree annul- above details are from the Ministry ling Decree No. 19 of 2007 on some of Labour and Social Affairs. sports authorities to bring under the Quoting the Ministry of umbrella of the Ministry of Youth Development Planning and Statistics, and Sports each of Qatar Motor and Qatar to join Poets for Change initiative the daily said there were a total of Motorcycle Federation, Qatar Marine 13,774 beneficiaries of social security Sports Federation, the Qatari Camel by August 2014. The beneficiaries fall Race Organizing Committee, and BY FAZEENA SALEEM passion for poetry with an aim the event was described as the accomplishment and a signifi- into 10 categories that include wid- Qatar Racing and Equestrian Club. to create an outlet for poets, largest poetry event in history. cant milestone towards reflect- ows, divorcees, orphans and senior The cabinet ratified the minister DOHA: Poetry enthusiasts spoken word artists and other English and Arabic poets and ing the positive aspects of citizens, among others. of interior’s draft decision to amend in Doha will gather later this performers to gain interna- people with a passion for poetry Qatar and its talented people,” Several citizens, in comments some provisions of Decision No. 8 month at a unique occasion tional and national exposure. will join the event in Qatar for Arwa Elsanosi, spokesperson posted on social media, have wel- of 2010 to set the country’s entry organised for the first time Auditions for the performers the first time this year. for 100TPC –Qatar told this comed the decision to increase social and exit ports. The amendment here, as part of a global event. who have applied for the event The event coordinator Amin newspaper. security allowance for the deserving. adds Hamad International Airport They will join poets, musicians, will be held tomorrow. Isaac, realising the absence of “Through this event, we hope One of them said that aside from (HIA) to the airports, making them and artists around the world 100TPC is an international a poetry society here despite to promote and cultivate a taking good care of its people, espe- four, namely: Doha Airport, Al Khor in a demonstration and cel- grassroots educational organi- the local talents and motivated love for creative writing and cially those that need help, the state Airport, Al Udeid Airport and HIA. ebration to promote peace and sation focusing on the arts, through attending a couple of the literary arts among youth has emerged as a role model in this THE PENINSULA/QNA sustainability. especially poetry, music, and the spoken word poetry events in Qatar, as well as dropping The event is part of an inter- literary arts with an intention in Sudan, has initiated the the spotlight on the local spo- national initiative ‘100 Thousand to promote peace and sustain- 100TPC-Qatar. ken and literary art scene in Poets for Change’ (100TPC), ability. It was founded in 2011 by The only requirement is that Doha, which is often ignored,” which holds an annual poetry Michael Rothenberg and Terri the event content focuses on the she said. event that takes place simul- Carrion, and focuses on a world- theme of change, a theme that 100TPC–Qatar is an open taneously around the world. wide event each September. may encompass many topics event for everyone who is in 100TPC-Qatar will be held on Ultimately, 700 events in that are left to the discretion poetry, spoken word, and arts September 27 under the theme 550 cities in 95 countries took of individual organiser or poet. in general; however the venue ‘Change’ and is organised by placeplace on September 24 in “The success of this initia- is to be announced later. a group of youngsters with a conjunction with 100TPC, and tive will constitute a notable THE PENINSULA

International Islamic signs health insurance deal for staff

DOHA: International Islamic, one of Qatar’s leading Shariah compliant lender, yesterday announced t o h ave si g ne d a he a lt h i n s u r- ance contract for its employ- ees and their families with Islamic Insurance as part of the bank’s efforts enhance working conditions for its employees at all levels and helping them improve their performance and productiv- ity, said a press statement. The contract was signed by International Islamic (QIIB) CEO Abdulbasit Al Shaibei and Islamic International Islamic and Islamic Insurance officials after signing the agreement. Insurance CEO, Ali Ibrahim Al AbdulGhani at the bank’s relationship with Islamic Islamic Insurance reflects this. Al AbdulGhani said: “We are headquarters. Insurance was strong. There He said under the contract all proud of our being chosen by Present were International are set targets and common bank employees and their fami- a distinguished bank like the Islamic Deputy CEO, Jamal tools for both Islamic banks lies will be provided health cover QIIB to provide health cover to Abdullah Al Jamal and and insurance companies. through Islamic Insurance. its employees and their families. Chief Human Resources In Qatar, QCB governs both “We have chosen Islamic We thank the top management and General Services Ali Al Islamic banks and insurance Insurance because of their of the bank for their trust in us. Mesaifri along with Karim companies. This makes it quality of service, expertise This shows we have improved Saleh, Executive Director, easier for a strong partner- and reputation in the mar- our insurance service to inter- Takaful insurance and Abdulla ship between Islamic banks ket. We are confident Islamic national standards. We also Fawzi Kamal, Executive and insurance companies. Insurance is able to meet the have a strong reputation in the Coordinator Development. The contract signed between expectations of its insurance industry.” Al Shaibei said the bank’s International Islamic and policy holders.” THE PENINSULA PHCC assigns over 200 nurses for Independent Schools DOHA: With more children enter- school premises. “There is a recognised ing schools with health or mental relationship between health and learn- health problems, more than 200 schools ing, as there is between school nurse nurses have been assigned to take availability and student well-being and care of Independent school students. educational success. The role of the The Primary Health Care Corporation school nurse encompasses both health (PHCC) said yesterday that it had pro- and educational goals,” said Buthaina Al vided 54 nurses to 54 boys Independent Naqeeb, PHCC School Nurse Supervisor schools and 155 nurses to 171 girls in a press statement issued yesterday. Independent schools. These nurses pro- “School nurses play a crucial role in the vide preventive services, early identifi- provision of school health to children and cation of problems, interventions, and youth. They are members of the school referrals to foster health and educa- health services team and their relation to tional success. children with special care needs”, she added. They are also responsible for daily Buthaina also explained that their monitoring of school facilities and pres- valuable work encompasses: provid- ence in the school clinic, the safety and ing health education by giving health health of the school environment and information to individual students and the food and juices sold in the school groups of students, assisting health educa- cafeteria, and constant follow up with tion curriculum development teams and students suffering from chronic dis- offering programs for staff, families, and eases or incidents that happen at the the community. THE PENINSULA

THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2014 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Rota to rehabilitate damaged Gaza schools Three of Rota’s 22 schools suffered major damages during Gaza war

DOHA: Reach out to Asia sustained minor damages. Rota children in the Gaza strip. 21,000 students who attend these percent, approximately 793,520 and solidarity towards making (Rota), Qatar’s leading non- is in the process of launching sev- 3. Based on the long term com- schools and directly and indirectly are children, according to the a positive impact on our neigh- profit and community develop- eral projects: mitment to Palestinians, Rota is impact over 126,000 families Palestinian Central Bureau of bours in Gaza. Rota remains ment organisation, has officially 1. Rota will rehabilitate any expecting to start a project titled who have been struggling under Statistics. Ensuring access to committed to Gaza and support- announced it will begin rehabil- of the 22 schools that have been “Enhancing Students Innovation extremely harsh living conditions, quality education for these stu- ing its community in this time of itating schools that were dam- damaged by rebuilding, painting, Through Science and Technology while attempting to maintain dents is our priority, and our great need.” aged during the recent war on repairing, and refurnishing these Clubs”. This project, which is set normalcy in Gaza mission will go on. We remain The recent attacks on Gaza Gaza. These schools will be from schools to launch in mid-2015, aims to Essa Al Mannai, Rota’s committed to our effort to help demonstrate the importance of the 22 schools Rota has already 2. Rota will also be launch- empower Palestinian children to Executive Director said: rebuild, rehabilitate and refur- preserving and promoting access rehabilitated since 2009’. ing a project that aims to use innovatively participate in their “Supporting access and quality bish damaged schools and to to education during a crisis. Rota Rota has recently received an a sports-based programme to communities as well as to improve to education and community revitalize the educational sys- initiatives are underpinned by the assessment report which indi- provide psychosocial support, and to realise their potential to development in Gaza has been tem throughout the Gaza strip. belief that education is as vital cated that three of the 22 schools build resiliency and contribute lead a better quality of life. a priority for Rota and always I would like to thank Qatar as shelter and as vulnerable to have suffered major damage to the restoration of a sense of These projects are poised to will be. Gaza’s population now Football Association and our attack as a building during a cri- while the remaining 19 schools normalcy among crisis-affected directly impact the lives of over exceeds 1.4 million, of which 56 loyal fans for their generosity sis. THE PENINSULA Library offers free online registration for citizens DOHA: Qatar National Library School and the German Center. Commenting on the visits, Dr (QNL), a member of Qatar The visits have also intro- Claudia Lux, Project Director Foundation for Education, duced a clear picture of the mod- at Qatar National Library, said: Science and Community ern library that QNL presents “Through these visits, QNL aims Development, continues to raise through its three functions: to reach the whole community its local profile and enhance National Library, University and introduce them to a vari- the lives of students, research- and Research Library, and a ety of services. 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Anyone who free of charge, and begin discov- library materials for students lives in Qatar and has a valid QU president highlights Qatar’s ering a wealth of digital content. and researchers. Qatari ID/Residence Permit is The QNL Access Team has The Metropolitan Public eligible for free library registra- conducted more than 100 visits; Library delivers library services tion. To register visit: www.qnl. which included the Ministry of and information for everyone so qa and to access the complete education reforms in Australia Interior, British Council, Aspetar that they can continue to enjoy list of online resources visit: Hospital, Gulf Organisation for reading, meet others, and eventu- http://www.qnl.qa/find-answers/ DOHA: “There is no substitute Saikal, Director Centre for Arab ever-growing international col- Industrial Consulting, Qatar Cool, ally become rich in knowledge and online-resources. for continuous and construc- and Islamic Studies, ANU faculty laboration. She countered that Awsaj Academy, the Birla Public information. THE PENINSULA tive dialogue with stakehold- and students. there are also challenges that are ers, including students, parents, She told the audience that not unique to Qatar University, employers and other educational Qatar University’s mission and that require vision, ambi- and research institutions in the rests on the essential pillars of tion, commitment, dedication Ooredoo to offer iPhone 6 from Sept 27 country on how we are doing high quality undergraduate and and persistence from university and what can be improved”, graduate education, rich and leadership, faculty, staff and stu- DOHA: Ooredoo yesterday speeds and the smoothest brows- bigger display in a design that is QU President Prof Sheikha well-rounded student experi- dents alike. “Without this, and a announced that the iPhone 6 ing experience. still comfortable to hold and easy Abdulla Al Misnad said in her ences, up-to-date research that strong political commitment at and iPhone 6 Plus will be avail- iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus to use. Both models are better in address ‘Education Reform in addresses community needs, and the highest level, the reform could able in Ooredoo shops across are the biggest advancements every way and include the Apple- Qatar: Reflections on the role strong ties to the local community not have happened”, she said. the country and at Ooredoo’s in iPhone history, featuring two designed A8 chip with second of the national university’ at Noting the similarities between The 5-day visit to Australia online eShop from September new models with stunning 4.7- generation 64-bit desktop-class Australian National University the two universities’ mission on comprised a tour of top univer- 27. Customers will be able to inch and 5.5-inch Retina HD architecture for blazing fast per- (ANU). education reform, she said: “Being sities in Melbourne, Canberra, pre-order the devices from 19 displays, and packed with inno- formance and power efficiency; Prof Al Misnad stressed that a national university, ANU will Brisbane and Sydney to explore September 2014. vative technologies in an all-new advanced iSight and FaceTime reforming education is a living appreciate the delicate balance possibilities of cooperation with Ooredoo will enable iPhone dramatically thin and seamless HD cameras; ultrafast wireless process constantly being refined involved in meeting local expec- QU. The visit also included meet- 6 and iPhone 6 Plus custom- design. technologies; and Apple Pay, an based on meaningful assessment tations and answering national ings with state officials includ- ers to connect to its world-class The new iPhones feature a easier way to simply and securely and robust evidence from the ambitions all within the context ing the Australian Minister of 4G network, the first and most precision unibody enclosure of make payments with just the field, and that it must be accepted of an inter-connected political and Education, Minister Assisting the established high-speed mobile anodized aluminium that con- touch of a finger. that it is a topic of national con- economic global environment”. Prime Minister for Women and Internet service in Qatar, which forms seamlessly to the shaped iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus versation that will generate mixed She added that the description Girls, and Queensland Minister provides super-fast mobile data glass of the display, delivering a include iOS 8, the latest version of reactions and in which all voices of ANU as “a resource for the for Education, Training and the world’s most advanced must be heard in order to move nation” captures exactly Qatar Employment. Qatar Ambassador mobile operating sys- forward. University’s own view of its role to Australia Yousef Ali Y Al tem, featuring a simpler, Prof Al Misnad discussed QU’s as an incubator of the nation’s Khater accompanied Prof Al faster and more intui- role in the ever-evolving academic precious human resources and an Misnad on some of the visits and tive user experience with and social environment in Qatar engine of its development. discussions which focused on joint new Messages and Photos to an audience comprising ANU Prof Al Misnad also highlighted efforts to increase student mobil- features, QuickType key- Pro-Vice Chancellors Dr Erik QU’s accreditation successes, ity, and academic cooperation board, a new Health app, Lithander (International and new graduate programmes, an between the institutions of both Family Sharing and iCloud Outreach), Prof Richard Baker expanding research portfolio, countries. Drive. THE PENINSULA (Student Experience), Prof Amin generous research funding, and THE PENINSULA

Education centres not permitted to offer university services: SEC DOHA: There are more than 200 licensed edu- cation centres in Qatar and none of them has been given permis- sion to offer university services, the Supreme Education Council (SEC) has said. These centres provide tuitions and coaching in language, administration, physical education etc. They also include cent- ers providing translation services. These centres are regu- lated by Law No. 6 of 2000 and any facility violating the provisions of the law will face stern action, a local Arabic daily said yesterday, quoting an SEC statement. THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2014 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Dozens of Egyptians on hunger strike to free detainees Campaign for release of activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, symbol of Tahrir Square uprising, gathers momentum

CAIRO: Dozens of Egyptians have 15 years in jail in June for violating a law September 15 as the date of the next ses- mother Laila Soueif said she went on as had her other daughter Sanaa, who is begun a hunger strike to demand the that seeks to curtail protests. sion after hearing prosecution evidence hunger strike after losing faith in the detained in a separate case. release of activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, a Twenty-four others were also sen- including family videos that outraged the courts. Omar Robert Hamilton, an activist and symbol of the 2011 uprising, and others tenced to 15 years in jail on similar defendants. “I do not trust the judiciary,” she relative of the family, said in an email to they say are being unfairly detained in charges, though only Abdel Fattah and The prisoners, appearing in a court said. “I am relying entirely on public journalists that 65 other people, includ- an effort to crush new-found freedoms. two others are currently behind bars. room cage, asked for jackets after com- opinion.” ing fellow detainees, had also given up An Egyptian court sentenced 33-year- The three in jail have been on hunger plaining that the lack of food made them Soueif said she and her daughter food as part of the Freedom for the Brave old Abdel Fattah, a leading figure in the strike since August 18. cold in the air conditioned court room. Mona, also a human rights activist, had campaign. revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak, to At their retrial yesterday, the judge set Speaking at the court, Abdel Fattah’s begun their hunger strike on August 28, REUTERS Sinai Islamists leave beheaded corpse with note

ISMAILIA, EGYPT: Residents in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula said yesterday they found a beheaded corpse bearing a note signed by an Islamist militant group linked to the Syria and Iraq-based Islamic State, accusing the victim of being an Israeli spy. The beheading is the eighth claimed by the group in Sinai in under a month in a surge of brutal killings seem- ingly inspired by Islamic State, which has been interna- tionally condemned for its atrocities and has been the target of US air strikes. Residents from a village south of the town of Sheikh Zuweid in northern Sinai told Reuters by phone that the decapitated body bore a note signed by Ansar Bayt Al Maqdis, saying he was an agent for Israeli spy agency Mossad. “This is the fate of all who prove to be traitors to their homeland,” the group said in the note, according to the villagers. A senior Ansar commander told Reuters last week that Islamic State, an Al Qaeda offshoot that controls large swathes of Syria and Iraq, had been advising the Sinai- based group on how to operate more effectively. Ansar Bayt Al Maqdis, the most powerful and ruthless militant group in Sinai, said last month it had beheaded four Egyptians for providing Israel with intelligence for an airstrike that killed three of its fighters. The group posted a video on Twitter showing the beheadings which resembled images posted on the Internet by Islamic State. Islamic State has caused international alarm over its rapid expansion and extremely violence, including the beheadings of two US journalists and the killing and bury- ing alive of hundreds of Iraqis from the Yazidi minority. REUTERS THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2014 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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rench President Francois Hollande took some time to react to the damaging allegations by his former partner Valerie Trierweiler in her much-awaited Fbook, which raised eyebrows and set off a political storm in the country. In her memoir, Thank You For This George Washington asked Moment, the journalist apparently peels of many layers of the Socialist president’s personality. The book portrays the bespectacled politician as one who looks down upon the poor, calling them ‘toothless’. Much as the book is damaging to Congress to ‘buy in,’ too Hollande’s social image, the slur that paints him anti-poor has put him in a soup. Hollande has seen his popularity BY STEPHEN MIHM of Congress. In this formulation, the information from the executive branch, plunging very sharply in the wake of the economic crisis executive simply executed the will of it was often too late. Lawmakers could that has seen jobs plummet and people struggle in one of the resident Barack Obama is Congress. The president was the “com- initiate inquiries after the fact, as they largest economies of the world. asking Congress for its “buy mander in chief,” but when it came to did in the case of Washington’s two Trierweiler’s claim likely hit Hollande’s popularity really in” for military operations decisions about going to war, continu- failed campaigns against the Indians, hard and a poll saw his ratings drop to an all-time low. to combat the Islamic State, ing wars and funding wars, Congress but this wasn’t the same as formulating which has captured large supplied the brains, and the president military policy and strategy. It was the A highly probably hit to his political fortunes has made Pswaths of territory in Iraq and Syria. provided the muscle. late 18th-century equivalent of Monday- Hollande react to the allegation as he did yesterday. The This approach, which puts Congress Problems began with the first presi- morning quarterbacking. Socialist leader yesterday condemned the allegation as “a lie in the role of merely acceding to the dent. George Washington knew more Although Congress occasionally that hurts me.” president’s request, isn’t what the about war than anyone in Congress, and regained some of its power to direct Hollande separated from Trierweiler after a magazine Founders imagined when they envi- he immediately shifted the balance of policy, most notably when it took the published photos of him secretly visiting the home of actress sioned the powers of “war and peace” power between the executive and legis- lead in calling for war against the in the new United States. lative branches. The catalyst was a war British in 1812, it generally resumed its Julie Gayet. His love affair with the popular actress obviously So how did this erosion of Congress’s of sorts, but one that wouldn’t be waged supine position in any conflict where didn’t go down well with Trierweiler, who was hospitalized role occur? Although some have blamed against the standing army of another the enemy, never mind the objectives, days later under suspicious circumstances. the September 11 attacks, and others nation. Instead, Washington sought “buy weren’t crystal clear. The book reveals in so many with a longer memory have pointed in” to go after the Indian tribes that began In 1817, for example, the secretary of details that Trierweiler tried to the finger at the wars in Vietnam and attacking white settlers on the western war instructed Major General Andrew The French gulp a large number of sleeping Korea, neither frontier in the late 1780s. Like the Islamic Jackson to march into Spanish Florida characterisation State today, they posed a threat that was in pursuit of Seminole Indians. Jackson, leader’s pills while Hollande chased her is correct. at once amorphous, hard to reach, and who had already invaded Florida on to the bathroom to stop her from In 1787, del- even harder to combat. two occasions without permission from reaction to doing so. She also says that he So it was that egates met in In 1789, Washington dutifully went the president or Congress, proceeded used to make fun of her family by Philadelphia to to Congress, and warned lawmakers to capture the Spanish garrison at St allegations saying that “they were not a very Congress discuss revising that it might be necessary to “punish Marks, and eventually took the Spanish the older “Articles aggressors” on the western frontier. fort at Pensacola. None of this had the pleasant site.” developed the that he is of Confederation” Congress, preoccupied by other matters, consent of Congress, much less the pres- Books, especially in the habit of deferring that governed the declared that it wouldn’t “hesitate to ident. Many in Congress cried foul, lead- anti-poor Western world, are known to turn former colonies. concur in such further measures” that ing to an investigation. But this quickly the tables on big leaders and even to the executive They quickly jet- Washington had in mind. No formal became a battle between defenders and seems bring down governments. This one tisoned these, vote authorizing war was held. detractors of Jackson, not a debate over has hit Hollande hard at a time branch, which, dedicating them- That statement was all Washington the war powers of Congress. Indeed, a selves instead to needed. He called up the militia and bill introduced in the House to prohibit contrived. when he is already battling low then as now, crafting the docu- sent it to the frontier. This and a sub- US troops from invading foreign terri- ratings. ment that would sequent campaign against the Indians tory without express permission from He yesterday put up a spirited could rely on become the US ended in disaster, prompting recrimina- Congress went down to a resounding defence of himself as one who never dislikes the poor expertise that Constitution. tions in Congress. But at no point was defeat, 112 to 42. — saying he has never been on the side of the powerful. The delegates there a formal declaration of war by Things haven’t changed much. Hollande said he had never been on the side of the poor. eluded legislators were almost Congress. Nor did Washington ask for Congress never assumed the role that unanimous in one. Instead, he plunged further into the the Founders imagined, even if it has “I don’t want people to be able to say or write that I don’t far removed from their belief that morass, asking Congress to establish a given its assent to both formal declara- care about suffering in society, because that’s a lie that war powers would national army to deal with the threat. tions of war and resolutions sanctioning hurts me,”he said. “This attack on the poor, the most the field of battle. rest in the hands Some legislators fought back, argu- military operations. But many of these disadvantaged, I took it as an attack on my entire life.” of the legislature, ing that the state militias alone could votes have been taken in response to a Hollande spoke of his modest background and of his two not the executive branch. In fact, early deal with the problem. But Washington fait accompli. drafts of the Constitution specified stuck to his guns, and ultimately got So it’s little wonder that presidents grandfathers, one of whom was a tailor, the other a teacher. that Congress would have the power his way. find so little reason to get congressional The French president has never tried to explain his infidelity to “make war.” This was ultimately And so it was that Congress devel- approval: Congress, though meant to with his partner. Contrition was the last thing on his mind changed to “declare war” to avoid tying oped the habit of deferring to the execu- shoulder the burden of declaring and when his affair with Julie Gayet was revealed. the hands of the president in the case of tive branch, which, then as now, could prosecuting wars, long ago ceded those Hollande’s purported pain at Trierweiler’s allegation he sudden attacks. But most essential func- rely on expertise that eluded legislators prerogatives. Good luck getting them dislikes the poor seems more like political firefighting after tions of war-making, and by extension, far removed from the field of battle. back. foreign policy, remained in the hands Moreover, when Congress finally got WP-BLOOMBERG being caught on the wrong foot• The other side Quote of Let’s have more energy on oil the day

RUDE oil prices are perhaps oil prices below $100 a barrel couldn’t as next week. right. There is, however, a flip side to the most important variable have come at a more opportune time Likewise, the creeping increase in it. The Indian consumer will be sub- in India’s complex energy for the Indian economy that is battling diesel costs may also end up setting jected to the harsher discipline of mar- Ceconomics. to claw out of its deepest slump in a the stage for finally freeing up diesel ket forces. Even with the subsidy in Dismantling its high-cost energy quarter of a century. prices from administrative control. place, diesel costs more at an Indian economy has been a crusade India’s High crude oil prices lead to higher The way we have so far gone about gas station than it does in Bangladesh. He (Assad) can play policy-makers have long waged and petrol and diesel prices in India. Costly freeing fuel prices, however, has left Market-determined fuel prices overdependence on imported crude fuel could fan inflation and knock up a lot to be desired. Until now, India would cut subsidies and help cut taxes a role through ending oil hasn’t helped matters. prices of most goods. has changed its fuel prices with an eye on petroleum products. This will help the crisis as soon as India, the world’s fourth-largest oil The converse is also true. If the more on the election calendar than on offset the shocks when global crude consumer, imports around 190 million Brent crude graph continues to slope the Brent crude graph, losing much of prices shoot up. possible and engaging tonnes of crude oil a year — costing downwards, expect your fuel bills to the damping desired and stretching in It is high time we took that one $145 billion annually, or more than a come down. Analysts expect petrol the process both the buyer and seller. big step in India’s energy reforms in political dialogue. third of its total import bill. prices, which are fully market deter- The latest fall in crude oil prices roadmap. Seen in this context, the fall in global mined, to come down further as early offers an opportunity to set the clock Hindustan Times Ban Ki Moon UN Chief THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2014 QATAR PERSPECTIVE www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 A critical time for GCC countries

BY DR MOHAMMAD SALEH AL MISFER

n August 27, a Saudi relations among Gulf and Arab delegation including countries are troubled, which is Prince Saud Al Faisal, reflected in North Africa and the OPrince Khalid bin Gaza Strip. Bandar Al Saud, head of General Amidst all this, the Arab intel- Intelligence, and Prince Mohamed lectuals are nowhere to be seen. bin Nayef, Minister of Interior, The Gulf ministerial meeting took arrived in Doha. place before the Arab ministerial Qatari leaders warmly wel- council meeting in Cairo, and was comed the delegation and the meant to forge a common stance Saudis then met the Emir H H among the Gulf states regarding Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al issues to be discussed in the Arab Thani. Their talks focused on council meeting and the United strengthening relations between Nations General Assembly. the two countries as well as con- (3) We are full of hope that cerns of the Gulf region and the Saudi efforts will help us tackle Arab world. internal differences among the It is worth pointing out that GCC states. However, devils in pictures of the delegation with the media outlets in some Gulf states Qatari leadership show that sum- are spiteful and want to spoil mer clouds on relations between relations between the leaders of the two countries are vanishing. these countries. Some of them The most reliable sources in hate one country while others Saudi Arabia said that the del- want to please the rulers in the egation was formed on the orders other countries, which is why we of the Custodian of the Two Holy see them sharpening their pens Mosques King Abdullah bin and tongues to harm the regime GCC foreign ministers at a meeting in Riyadh recently. Abdulaziz. of the country that is in disagree- It was formed with the aim of ment with other GCC countries. looking for fame or positions or media coverage, unlike some aforementioned effort of the most accusations that Qatar was fund- ending disagreements between The third type of media persons other gains: Be honest, otherwise Gulf and Arab countries that are extremist Zionists is the best ing terrorism, commending its the countries of the Gulf as soon is opportunists who do not miss you will be unjust and foolish. not affected by the Arab Spring, proof against their claims. role in stopping the war in Gaza. as possible so that their relations a single opportunity to become (4) Zionist media outlets are namely Algeria and Morocco. It is ironic that Israel demanded The Washington Post has also return to the level prior to the famous and get a place in their targeting Qatar by accusing Qatar (5) In Israel, the Likud Party is the shutting down of Al Jazeera commended Qatar for using its withdrawal of ambassadors of ruler’s gatherings (Majlis). They of funding and supporting Hamas preparing a draft law that consid- because it revealed its crimes influence with political groups Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the do not know that if they get the against Israel. It is an honour for ers Qatar an enemy of Israel. This against humanity during the war in the region to achieve positive UAE from Qatar on March 5, place they want, they will miss Qatar to stand in solidarity with is an honour to Qataris, as we in Gaza, but some Arab leaders results, the latest of which was 2014. another place. the Palestinians, who are besieged are not allies or friends of Israel. are also making the same demand the release of journalist Peter This is the wisdom of kings Therefore, I call from the bot- by Israel and the regime in Egypt The Israeli representative at the — because both of them do not Theo Curtis. that others should realise; know- tom of my heart on all writers in at the same time. United Nations is also working want the truth to come out. Finally, I will say that there ing that what faces us all is bigger the Gulf countries to support our It is an honour to be accused with the Israeli lobby in the US (6) The German govern- are a few hateful, immoral groups and more dangerous than disa- leaders with constructive opin- of struggling in order to enable to pass a decision through the UN ment issued an official apology that are targeting Qatar in collab- greements among GCC countries. ions end the crisis we are facing, the Palestinians to achieve their Security Council naming Qatar a after a statement by German oration with some parties in the (2) The Saudi delegation’s visit instead of stirring hatred and legitimate rights. The fact is funder of terrorism. Development Minister Gerd Arab world. Whatever they do, we took place before the regular min- widening the gaps between the that the Qatari government and Enemies of Qatar who claim Muller, who said that Qatar was will hold our heads high, and the isterial council meeting of the leaders. The writing profession citizens have stood besides the that Qatar is a strategic ally of funding the Islamic State. civilized world is commending the GCC countries in Riyadh. This requires honesty and sincerity, Palestinian resistance politically Israel against the interests of the On August 19, the spokesman of role of our wise leadership, so will meeting took place at a time when and I would like to say to those and financially and provided it Arab world should know that the the US State Department denied there be an end to these attacks?

BY KHALED AL JABER Arab democratic transition Need for clearer rules on ID cards hen any person enters the authorities. The minimum emocratic transition can be defined as transition from the offices of ministries, BY MOHAMED ALI AL KUBAISI charge they would face would be a non-democratic system to a more democratic politi- Winstitutions or compa- of collusion with the person. Dcal regime. nies, he is asked to hand over his 4. ID card: A lot of government The aforementioned process includes various elements of ID card. 1. E-government transactions: entities use the ID number for the current regime, with changes in the constitutional and The person has two options: the Among the services provided completing transactions, includ- legal structure, institutions, political processes, civil society first is to refuse to hand over his under e-governance are apply- ing bank and real estate transac- organisations, and patterns of citizens’ participation in politics. ID card, which means returning ing for a business visa, issuing of tions, change of car ownership etc. Gareth Dale points out two distinct routes to democratisa- without doing the work he came travel permits, applying for new This and other reasons have made tion, namely transition by disunity, destruction and collapse of for, while the second option is to or renewal of residence permits, me refuse to give my ID card to the state, or transition through negotiations and consensus. The hand over the ID card, which is a and approval of exit permits. For security personnel. I try to con- experiences of Spain and Portugal represent these two routes. violation of Qatari law and could The Ministry of all these services the identity of vince them and they understand Portugal witnessed transition through the first route, where create further problems for him. the applicant is verified through the situation occasionally and ask it experienced disunity and destruction as the old authoritarian The Ministry of Interior has Interior has warned the password, and one can imagine for only my name and telephone élite lost control of the political process, paving the way for warned citizens against handing citizens against the damage that can be done if the number. more radical forces to establish governments that set about over their ID cards to anyone as password is revealed. Finally, I would like to say that replacing or transforming existing institutions. this is illegal and can cause prob- handing over their 2. Airports and border check- we are confused by this situation Spain, on the other hand, took the contrasting route, as lems as the other person can mis- ID cards to anyone points: Electronic gates at airports as while the state authorities ask the regime and the opposition managed to reach a consensus use the cards. and border checkpoints have fin- people not to hand over their ID through negotiations, which did not result in revolutionary The Ministry of Foreign Affairs as this is illegal and gerprint scanners, however, ID cards, security personnel insist actions and managed warns citizens abroad not to the other person cards can be used to pass other on it, therefore, the Ministry of to bring about grad- deposit their ID cards with any ports or border checkpoints that Interior should find a solution to ual change. They let authority under any circum- can misuse the do not have electronic gates. this problem. the monarchy remain I think we need stances. This means that handing cards. 3. Moving across GCC coun- The solutions could be: 1. and the privileges of over the ID card to any author- tries: To facilitate movement of Preventing the use of ID cards in the church, the army to create a solid ity at the gate or entrance of any people across their borders, the the absence of the holder (which and the entrenched ministry or institution is a deposit. an electronic chip on which data GCC countries agreed to approve may create difficulties for the eld- authorities were largely foundation for So what is the story behind can be stored, including text and the use of ID cards to cross bor- erly); 2. Informing all government untouched. This kind these ID cards and why would the pictures, and it can be loaded with ders. Staff at borders enter the and non-government institutions of transition did not authorities warn against handing programs. Data on the card can ID number in a computer and not to take ID cards from visi- encroach on or offend democracy and over the cards to others when be changed, obviating the need for compare the photo with the card- tors and only check the cards to the authorities or dis- article No. 22 of Law No. 38/2005 issuing a new card. holder, but if there is a big crowd verify the identity of the holder; 3. rupt the social and eco- a democratic says that passports or ID cards do These ID cards cannot be they only enter the number and The authorities can also provide nomic situation. not constitute evidence that the forged, but those with the required allow the travellers to go. One can people with identification cards Czechoslovakia and culture to realise holder has Qatari nationality. skills can change the data on them, imagine the responsibility of these in addition to the ID card to be Romania followed the The Ministry of Interior says and the danger of leaving ID cards officers and their accountability if shown when necessary; however, Portuguese style of tran- on its website that the national with someone else is that they can anything goes wrong and anyone this card should not be used for sition while Poland and peaceful transfers ID card is a plastic card that has be used in different ways: they allowed to pass is wanted by processing any official transaction. Hungary experienced gradual change simi- of power, similar lar to what happened in Spain, with negotia- to what Western tions between the politi- cal players resulting in Laws needed to check price hikes by greedy traders reforms and reconcili- societies have done ation and a peaceful hat bothers citizens Cabinet to use its legal authority transfer of power. after long periods most and makes them BY KHILED ABDULLAH AL ZIYARAH and put an end to manipulation The clearest exam- Wstrongly argue is things of the basic needs of customers. ple of such a transition of turmoil and that disrupt their normal lives By doing this, the Advisory today is that of Tunisia, and mess up with plans made Ramadan, the summer vacations, to put an end to these practices Council will play its real, par- whose experience is in according to their usual routine. and the back to school period. and bring back stability to prices liamentary role as citizens are stark contrast to that of violence. One of these issues is the hike In view of this I think we need in the market. expecting a lot from the council other Arab states, which in prices of consumer goods and to confront the greedy traders Certain companies in the in the coming days. entered a cycle of vio- stationery every year when every- and take steps to stop the applica- country have a monopoly on sell- The citizens are now aware of lence, murder and open one is getting ready for the school tion of the government’s decision ing some goods, including some everything and cannot remain confrontation, especially in Syria. year. Stationery prices have gone determining which commodi- key consumer goods, stationery, silent regarding any steps taken Due to the prevailing culture of tyranny, intolerance and up substantially this year in all ties are subject to the supervi- spare parts of cars and various against their interests. denial of rights to the opposition, it will take time to bring malls and shopping centres. sion of the Consumer Protection electronic goods. Everybody is anticipating com- about a cultural change that will embrace a democratic system Families who travelled abroad Department until laws to regu- These companies have become pletion of work on laws related through a gradual transition process. shopped there for whatever their late the economy and organise the entrenched in their businesses to the economy, including the I think we need to create a solid foundation for democracy children needed for the school local market are prepared. with support from the authorities consumer protection code, which and a democratic culture to realise peaceful transfers of power, year. Parents could buy their chil- The economic legislative sys- and pay no attention to custom- has been ineffective in the face similar to what Western societies have done after long periods dren something unique, in that tem is linked to regulation of the ers’ interests. Sometimes, they of price hikes by greedy traders of turmoil and violence. One can hopefully shorten the time it is not available in Qatar, and market in response to appeals sell their products at prices that controlling the market. and learn from European experiences to avoid a repetition of got the necessary things at much from citizens to the Advisory are five times higher than those their failures in the Arab and Muslim world. cheaper prices. Council, which considered the in the countries of origin. The views expressed in the articles on this page do not reflect the viewpoint of the The same applies to consumer issue of unjustified price hikes and We demand that the Advisory newspaper. goods whose prices go up during asked for a comprehensive study Council submit a plea to the THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2014 MIDDLE EAST 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Iraqi army to be honed for taking on IS US Secretary of State visiting region says global coalition will succeed in eliminating Jihadist threat

BAGHDAD: US Secretary of State welcomed the new government’s accept- John Kerry said yesterday in Baghdad ance that Sunnis need to take charge that a global coalition will defeat jihad- of the fightback against IS in their own ists in Iraq and Syria, hours before areas. President Barack Obama was expected “Abadi has said repeatedly since he was to announce expanded strikes against named the prime minister that he is not them. going to... take military units from the “We all know — I think we come to south and go into areas in the north and this with great confidence — that, ulti- west to take on (IS),” a US official told mately, our global coalition will succeed journalists travelling with Kerry. in eliminating the threat from Iraq, Instead, national guard units “grown from the region and from the world,” from the provinces... locally recruited,” Kerry said. will take the “primary security respon- The top US diplomat said the Iraqi sibility” for the fightback in the five army would be rebuilt as part of the provinces where IS fighters hold sway in long-awaited strategy against the Islamic Sunni areas. State (IS). The New York Times and the Iraq’s armed forces “will be recon- Washington Post has said Obama was stituted and trained and worked on in preparing to authorise the expansion terms of a number of different strategies of the air campaign against IS that he through the help not just of the United launched in Iraq on August 8 to neigh- States but of other countries also,” bouring Syria. Kerry said. An opinion poll published on Tuesday His remarks came after talks with suggested 65 percent of Americans would Iraq’s new leaders on their role in efforts approve such an expansion of strikes, to halt IS since its fighters spearheaded a which would be without the authorisa- lightning offensive in June seizing much tion of the Damascus government. of the Sunni Arab heartland north and US Secretary of State John Kerry looks over papers while flying from Jordan to Iraq yesterday. RIGHT: Kerry walks with Iraq’s Foreign But Brussels-based think-tank the west of Baghdad. International Crisis Group warned “the Minister Ibrahim Al Jaafari before their meeting in Baghdad yesterday. Obama is widely expected to announce resulting boost to IS recruitment might the expansion of the month-old US air outweigh the group’s tactical losses”. campaign in Iraq to neighbouring Syria, of the “broadest possible coalition of Kerry says has the potential to unite Kerry praised the new premier’s com- Washington has pinned its hopes where IS has seized a swathe of the partners”. Iraq’s diverse communities. mitment to the sweeping reforms needed, of pegging back IS in Syria on rebel northeast, bordering Iraq. He was to fly on to Saudi Arabia for Kerry met new Prime Minister Haidar and welcomed the military’s readiness to groups opposed to the jihadists, baulk- The US administration has come talks today with 11 regional foreign min- Al Abadi, a Shia regarded as far less divi- reconstitute itself for the fightback. ing at cooperation of any sort with the under mounting criticism for not tak- isters on a joint campaign against IS. sive than his predecessor Nouri Al Maliki, But the scale of the security challenge regime of President Bashar Al Assad ing stronger action against IS militants US efforts to build a broad coalition who was criticised for driving many in facing Iraq was underlined by bombs that whose overthrow it has supported who have committed a spate of atrocities, had been complicated by the region’s the Sunni minority into the arms of IS. killed at least 19 people in east Baghdad since 2011. many of them paraded on the Internet. sectarian politics, with Saudi Arabia and US officials have hailed a more construc- during Kerry’s visit. But the main anti-jihadist rebel alli- Kerry’s visit to Baghdad was the first other Sunni states deeply suspicious of tive approach from Abadi to recaptur- Much of the regular army is drawn ance suffered a major blow late Tuesday stop on a regional tour to build support Baghdad’s Shia-led government. ing Sunni Arab areas from the jihadists from Iraq’s Shia majority who come from when a blast in the northwest killed 47 for the new US strategy which he has But they were boosted Monday by after the heavy-handed security tactics Baghdad and the south and are despised of its top commanders. said would only work with the backing the formation of a new government that of Maliki’s government. outsiders in Sunni areas. US officials have AFP

Palestinian fury Islamist militants Syria Islamist group names kidnap 25 Libyan new leader BEIRUT: The new head of the Islamist group Ahrar Al Sham, soldiers, kill 5 more once one of the strongest mili- tias in the Syrian civil war, has ABU DHABI: Islamists mili- them at checkpoints. urged fellow insurgents to fight tants in Libya have probably To get support for his govern- on after a blast on Tuesday kidnapped up to 25 soldiers and ment, Thinni flew from Tobruk wiped out its senior leadership. killed five others in the east- to the UAE, a country that has In a video on YouTube, Ahrar ern city of Benghazi, an army cracked down on Islamists. Part Al Sham said Hashem Al Sheikh, commander said yesterday, as of the armed group from the also known as “Abu Jaber”, had the prime minister travelled to western city of Misrata control- been named its new leader and the United Arab Emirates to ling Tripoli is Islamist-leaning. Abu Saleh Tahan its new mili- seek support for his embattled “We are asking the interna- tary chief. Another video showed government. tional community to stand by us a man identified as Abu Jaber Prime Minister Abdullah in fighting terrorism. This is the exhorting his men to fight on. Al Thinni has called for the inter- support we need,” he told report- The explosion in northwestern national community to help fight ers in Abu Dhabi. Syria killed at least 12 including terrorism in the oil-producing NATO and Arab countries have Ahrar Al Sham’s former leader country, which has slid towards been training Libyan soldiers Hassan Aboud, said the group anarchy three years after the since the toppling of Gaddafi, but which is part of the Islamic Front fall of Muammar Gaddafi. Last regular forces are often no match alliance fighting both the Syrian month, the capital, Tripoli, fell for armed groups battle-hardened army and the now dominant to an armed group, forcing the from the 2011 uprising. Islamic State movement. elected parliament to relocate Thinni said the UAE was The Syrian Observatory for to the remote eastern town of supporting Libya, without Human Rights, a group moni- Tobruk. elaborating. toring the conflict, said the blast In Benghazi, Islamist fighters US officials have said the UAE killed 28 of Ahrar Al Sham’s com- have been trying to seize the city’s and Egypt, which also has cracked manders, dealing a major blow to civilian and military airport. down on Islamists, bombed posi- the organisation. “Jihadi men of Five soldiers were killed and tions held by Misrata fighters our nation ... do not let the crisis seven others wounded when days before they seized the capital Palestinian protesters run from a barricade during clashes with Israeli soldiers, after the funeral of 22-year shake you or the calamity divide Islamist fighters belonging to a last month. Thinni denied this. old Palestinian Issa Al Qatari, at the Amari refugee camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah yesterday. you,” Abu Jaber said on the video group called Majlis Al Shoura He said the UAE had arrested Palestinian medics and security sources said Al Qatari had been hit in the chest by gunfire earlier in the day while eulogising the dead. “Rise, attacked an army checkpoint seven Libyan nationals, some of let us die for what they have died during stone-throwing clashes after soldiers entered the Al Amari camp on an arrest mission. in Benghazi on Tuesday, Fadhil whom Libyan media have said had for,” he said in a statement read Al Hasi, a special forces com- links to the Muslim Brothers. from behind a desk. REUTERS mander, told Reuters. “We respect the sovereignty of Majlis Al Shoura refers to an other countries like we respect alliance of Islamist fighters in ours. We don’t accept our citi- Sanaa tense as Benghazi that includes Ansar zens to interfere in the domes- UN chief urges Assad to seek Al Sharia. Washington says the tic” affairs of other countries, Houthi rebels group was behind the attack on Thinni said when asked about the US consulate in Benghazi two the arrests. political solution to crisis clash with troops years ago in which the American He also repeated accusations ambassador was killed. against Sudan, saying Khartoum ABU DHABI: UN Secretary- political dialogue,” the London- welcomed the role of US war- “Twenty-five soldiers are had sent a war plane to support General Ban Ki-moon urged based, Saudi-owned newspaper planes to attack the militants, SANAA: Shia Houthi rebels missing,” Hasi said, adding that “terrorist groups”. President Bashar Al Assad quoted him as saying. Assad has warned that any strikes clashed with Yemeni forces in Islamists had most likely abducted REUTERS to seek a political solution to Islamic State, a militarily- conducted without his country’s a Sanaa suburb yesterday as Syria’s war, saying this would powerful Al Qaeda offshoot that permission would be considered tensions ran high in the capital help international efforts wants to create a jihadist hub an act of aggression, potentially where they have set up protest UAE arrested 7 Libyans, says PM against Islamic State militants in the heart of the Arab world, plunging any US-led coalition into camps, security sources and in Syria and Iraq, Al Hayat has made rapid territorial gains a broader conflict with Syria. witnesses said. ABU DHABI: Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah Al Thani newspaper reported yesterday. in both Iraq and Syria in recent Asked whether any armed out- A gunfight broke out in the acknowledged yesterday that the United Arab Emirates has In an interview with the pan- months that have alarmed side intervention in Syria would Sabaha district, where Houthi arrested seven Libyans, denying reports that the Gulf state had Arab daily, Ban said years of regional and Western powers. need the blessing of Assad’s gov- protesters have been camping detained 30. war between Assad’s forces and In July, when Assad was sworn ernment, Ban said: “I know that for weeks in a campaign to bring “Only seven people” are being held, Thani told reporters in Abu armed rebel groups had allowed in for a new term as president, he some leading countries are try- down the government and secure Dhabi, without saying why they had been arrested. militants such as Islamic State to vowed to recover all Syria from ing to discuss the matter, and greater representation in state Pro-Islamist Libyan media reported on September 1 that some take root in the region. Islamist insurgents and dismissed the position of the UN will be institutions. 30 Libyans had been detained by UAE authorities. Asked whether Assad would the Syrian opposition abroad as declared at the suitable time. On Tuesday, seven activists The arrests reportedly came after air raids last month on Islamist have any role to play in an inter- traitors. But he also said he would “But it is important that the were shot dead as Houthi pro- fighters in Libya that US officials said were carried out by the United national coalition being assem- be willing to work with the coun- international community is united testers attempted to storm gov- Arab Emirates. bled to fight Islamic State in try’s internal opposition, without and shows strong support for any ernment headquarters, while Thani, who arrived in Abu Dhabi Tuesday as part of a delega- Syria and Iraq, the UN chief said giving details. action that has to be taken to root thousands blocked main thor- tion led by the head of Libya’s parliament, Aqila Issa, added that Assad could contribute by work- The United States has carried out this terrorism.” oughfares in central Sanaa. the Libyan embassy had “taken measures to ensure their rights.” ing politically towards an end to out weeks of air strikes against Assad’s military has stepped And troops in Hiziaz, a south- But he added that “if they had committed a crime against UAE the war in his country. Islamic State targets in Iraq, but up air strikes over the last three ern entrance to Sanaa, clashed laws they will certainly be put to a fair trial... and if they are inno- “He (Assad) can play a role the outlook for US air raids in months against the group, which with rebels who tried to drive a cent... they will be released.” AFP through ending the crisis as Syria is much less clear. controls about a third of Syria’s vehicle loaded with arms into the soon as possible and engaging in While Iraq’s government territory. REUTERS capital. AFP THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2014 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Cameron’s job at risk if Scotland breaks away Some lawmakers could call for PM to step down

LONDON: If Scots vote for expected several members of break-up of the United Kingdom independence next week, Prime the party would call publicly for could be fatal for the leader of Minister David Cameron could Cameron to go if that happened. a party officially known as the face fierce pressure to resign Support among Conservative Conservative and Unionist Party. less than eight months before a back-benchers could be further Former Conservative Prime national election, lawmakers in eroded if the UK Independence Minister John Major, chosen after his party say. Party wins its first parliamentary a back-bench revolt toppled three- A vote to break up the United seat in a by-election next month time winner Margaret Thatcher in Kingdom would throw British caused by the defection of one of 1990, said Britain would be vastly politics into turmoil and while their Eurosceptic colleagues to diminished by a Scottish exit. Cameron has repeatedly insisted the anti-EU movement. “Our role in Nato would be he will not quit, secession might The Conservatives have a long reduced, our relations consequently well mark the beginning of the history of ousting leaders if law- with the United States would be end for his leadership. makers fear for their own re-elec- damaged. The United Kingdom Bookmakers Ladbrokes have tion. Many are already concerned would be weaker in every interna- slashed the odds on Cameron that UKIP could swallow their tional body it attends, it certainly being replaced this year to 4/1 vote. It was Cameron who agreed would be weaker in the European from 16/1 in just two days since to hold the Scottish vote and he Union in the forthcoming negotia- opinion polls showed a surge of who vetoed putting a third option tions,” he told BBC Radio. support for independence. offering greater devolution on bal- Britain’s hard-hitting media Some lawmakers in the influen- lot papers, betting that a stark yes/ may also go for the prime min- tial Conservative 1922 Committee, no choice on independence would ister’s jugular, although they may regarded as a barometer of the deliver a clear victory for the sta- spread the blame. Media magnate party’s mood, have been canvass- tus quo. When asked if he would Rupert Murdoch, who owns the ing opinion on whether Cameron resign last week, Cameron said: “No Sun, Times, Sunday Times and would retain their confidence in ... emphatically.” Senior ministers, Sky News, tweeted at the week- the event of a lost referendum, a including finance minister George end: “Scottish independence “Liberty for Independence” statue is placed outside the Scottish parliament by pro-independence campaigner Conservative lawmaker said. Osborne, tipped as a possible future means huge black eye for whole Alistair Blacky in Edinburgh yesterday, ahead of Scotland’s independence referendum. Prime Minister David “He is going to get the blame leader, have echoed that view. political establishment, especially Cameron urged Scottish voters not to rip apart a “family of nations” as he joined British party leaders in Scotland if there is a “Yes” vote,” the But going down in history as Cameron and (opposition Labour to try to head off surging support for a split. lawmaker said, adding that he the man who presided over the leader Ed) Miliband.” REUTERS Moscow tests N-missile Ukraine: EU Ebola threatening Liberia’s MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin said “In October and November of this year, the delays Russia existence, warns minister yesterday that Russia must maintain its naval fleet will carry out two more launches with nuclear deterrence to counter what he called two rocket cruisers equipped with ballistic mis- MONROVIA: Ebola is threaten- communities with decrepit health growing security threats, after Moscow test- siles,” Interfax quoted Chirkov as saying. sanctions ing the very existence of Liberia facilities and poor public awareness launched an intercontinental nuclear missile. A Bulava missile weighs 36.8 tonnes, can travel as the virus spreads like “wild- campaigns. With ties between Moscow and the West 8,000km and hold six to 10 nuclear warheads. BRUSSELS/BERLIN: fire”, the country’s defence min- The WHO’s epidemiology chief, frayed by the crisis in Ukraine, Putin also took Intended to become the cornerstone of Russia’s European Union envoys failed ister, Brownie Samukai, has Sylvie Briand, said that the goal in greater control of a commission that oversees the nuclear forces by the end of the decade, its devel- yesterday to reach a decision warned, following a World Health Senegal and Nigeria was to stop defence industry and made a new call for Russia opment had been delayed by numerous failed on whether to implement new Organisation assessment that the transmission completely. Senegal has to become less reliant on imported Western tests. Russia is slated to spend over 20 trillion sanctions against Russia over worst is yet to come. announced only one infection, while equipment. roubles ($536.81bn) on the modernisation of its military involvement in the war After predicting an “exponen- Nigeria has recorded 19 infections and He said Natio was using rhetoric over the army, which still largely relies on Soviet-era in Ukraine and will meet for tial increase” in infections across eight deaths. The Democratic Republic Ukraine crisis to “resuscitate itself” and noted weapons and arms technologies. talks today, EU diplomats said. west Africa, the WHO warned that of the Congo is battling a separate out- that Russia had warned repeatedly that it would Putin reiterated that Moscow would find ways The diplomats said that while Liberia, which has accounted for half break, which has killed 32 people in a have to respond to such moves. to replace defence-industry imports it has lost Germany was pushing to have of all deaths, could initially only hope remote north-western region. Before Shortly before he spoke, Russia successfully because of European Union and US sanctions the sanctions implemented, sev- to slow the contagion, not stop it. the outbreak, Liberia had only one tested its new submarine-launched Bulava inter- imposed in the Ukraine crisis. “We are not plan- eral other EU countries wanted “Liberia is facing a serious threat doctor for every 100,000 patients in continental missile, a 12-metre-long weapon that ning to intentionally stop cooperation with our to hold off because a ceasefire in to its national existence,” Samukai a population of 4.4 million. can deliver a nuclear strike with up to 100 times foreign partners ... (but) our industry should be Ukraine was holding. told a meeting of the UN security Guinea’s President, Alpha Conde, the force of the atomic blast that devastated able to produce critically important equipment, “Some countries are asking for council. The disease is “now spread- described Ebola as a “war” his nation Hiroshima in 1945. components and materials,” he said. time,” Italian Foreign Minister ing like wildfire, devouring every- – with 555 dead so far – needed to “We need a reliable and complete assessment Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Federica Mogherini, who has thing in its path”, he said. win. He criticised neighbouring of the potential threats to Russia’s military Rogozin, who oversees defence, said that Russia been chosen to be the EU’s new The latest death toll is 2,296 out countries, including Ivory Coast and security. For each of these threats, a sufficient, will respond to the United States’ “prompt global foreign policy chief, told reporters of 4,293 cases in Liberia, Sierra Senegal, for shutting their borders, adequate response should be found,” Putin told a strike” programme designed to take out targets in Brussels. Leone, Guinea and Nigeria as of 6 and airlines for suspending flights to Kremlin meeting of government defence officials. within an hour by upgrading its nuclear and EU diplomats said that coun- September. Nearly half of all infec- affected countries. “They forget that “First of all, we are talking about creating a space defence forces. tries with close ties to Russia such tions have occurred in the past 21 when you close borders, people just go rational series of assault capabilities, including “Our response to the prompt global strike as Italy, Austria and Finland are days. The latest WHO figures under- through the bush. It’s better to have maintaining a guaranteed solution to the task of strategy is upgrading our strategic nuclear forces reluctant to implement the new score Ebola’s asymmetric spread, as official passages of transit,” he said. nuclear deterrence.” He said Russia must ensure and resources — the strategic rocket forces and sanctions. it travels through densely populated THE GUARDIAN it develops high-precision weapons in the next the naval ones — and also developing air and Ukraine’s president said yes- few years, although he also said, “Someone might space defence resources according to the plans terday Russia had removed the want to start a new arms race. We are not going we have finalised,” he was quoted as saying by the bulk of its forces from his coun- to take part in that, of course.” Interfax news agency. The Pentagon’s Prompt try, raising hopes for a peace drive Naval Commander Admiral Viktor Chirkov Global Strike programme is developing conven- now underway after five months said the Bulava’s test launch had been carried tional weapons that could take out targets any- of conflict in which more than out from the White Sea and that the missile had where on the planet within an hour’s notice. 3,000 people have been killed. hit its target in Russia’s far east. REUTERS/AFP REUTERS American accused of killing his 5 children WASHINGTON: An American man is suspected of killing his five children aged between one and eight and burying them along a road in garbage bags, US media reported yesterday. The suspect named as 32-year-old Timothy Ray Jones from South Carolina, reportedly led police to the spot where his children lay buried after being held on a driving offence. Jones was stopped on Saturday at a road checkpoint in the southern state of Mississippi. Officers found he appeared to be driving under the influence of drugs, according to The State newspaper. The suspect, who is divorced from the children’s mother and shares custody with her, was detained after police found his name on a list compiled by the National Crime Information Centre. His ex-wife had reported him and the children miss- ing on September 3 after she failed to get in touch with them, the newspaper said. Jones later led police to the site where the children were buried, in the neighbouring state of Alabama, the paper said. “The children were decomposed and were found in indi- vidual plastic garbage bags,” Sheriff Charlie Crumpton of Smith County in Mississippi was quoted as saying. AFP

Judgement day for Pistorius PRETORIA: “Blade Runner” Oscar Pistorius appears in court today to face judgement over the killing of his model girlfriend, ending a six-month trial that turned the amputee’s private life into a global spectacle. The 27-year-old celebrity athlete faces life behind bars — and notoriety that would eclipse his athletic achievements — if found guilty of deliberately killing lover Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day 2013. Judge Thokozile Masipa’s ruling, on charges of murder and three firearms offences, will likely be laid out in two days of careful legal argument and then a final verdict, perhaps tomorrow. AFP THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2014 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES Japan watchdog backs reactor restart Getting the consent of local communities still scarred by Fukushima disaster remains a challenge

TOKYO: Japan’s nuclear a tsunami sent reactors into who enjoy no direct benefits but watchdog gave a green light to meltdown, the Japanese public see themselves as in the firing line plans to restart two reactors, remains unconvinced of the safety in the event of another accident more than three years after the of the technology. like Fukushima. Fukushima disaster. Much of the job of convincing Greenpeace Japan, which is However, hurdles still remain, a sceptical nation will fall on the campaigning for Tokyo to aban- including getting the consent of shoulders of new industry min- don nuclear power completely, local communities in a country ister Yuko Obuchi, a 40-year-old said the government of Prime still scarred by the catastrophe mother-of-two with an impecca- Minister Shinzo Abe appeared to where all 48 viable reactors are ble political pedigree. be glossing over the last year, in offline. “If people say they are worried, which Japan has survived without The go-ahead from the Nuclear I think it is only natural. If you nuclear power. Regulatory Authority (NRA) are a mother, I think it is a kind of “The government... is ignor- comes after it issued a more than feeling that everyone has,” she had ing the lessons of Fukushima 400-page safety report in July, said soon after being appointed as and attempting to prevent the saying two reactors at the Sendai the nation’s first female industry renewable energy revolution, plant in southern Japan were up minister. trying to take the nation back to to scratch, and follows a month- “The central government must its dependence on dangerous and long public consultation period. offer a full explanation to these unreliable nuclear power,” said After having considered around sentiments.” the organisation’s Kazue Suzuki. 17,000 public comments that it She has highlighted the impor- “The government should be received, the regulator confirmed tance of earning the “understand- focusing its efforts on managing it believed the two units met ing of hosting communities,” who the ongoing nuclear disaster at required standards and gave its may be hostile to the prospect of Fukushima, supporting its vic- written approval. firing up nearby reactors, despite tims, and abandon its plans to But any restart is unlikely beefed up safety rules. restart nuclear reactors.” before the year end as the opera- The minister has reportedly Abe has been trying to per- tor, Kyushu Electric Power, is dispatched five central govern- suade a wary public that the also required to get more NRA ment officials to help local bodies world’s third largest economy approvals for other remedial work in Kagoshima draw up evacuation must return to an energy source at the site. plans in case of an accident. that once supplied more than a More challenging, perhaps, is Communities living right next quarter of its power. gaining the consent of communi- door to nuclear plants, who often Widespread anti-nuclear senti- ties living near the plant in south- enjoy grants from utility com- ment has simmered in Japan ever western Kagoshima prefecture, panies and depend on the power since an earthquake and tsunami who must sign off on the restarts stations for employment, are fre- in March 2011 caused meltdowns before they can happen. quently sympathetic to restarts. at the Fukushima power plant, Anti-nuclear demonstrators stage a rally in front of the Nuclear Regulatory Authority in Tokyo yesterday. More than three years after However, there is often hostil- sparking the worst atomic disas- the disaster at Fukushima, where ity from those living further afield ter since Chernobyl. AFP US, China security leaders spar over jet manoeuvres Taiwan court jails Chinese BEIJING: Top US and China reconnaissance activities near “constructive” and added China sensitive submarine base. Japan and the Philippines. security officials disagreed this China,” according to the official took US concerns seriously. In public remarks to Fan on US and Chinese officials held intel officer week over what the United Xinhua news agency. The two countries are working Tuesday, Rice alluded to the issue, talks at the Pentagon after the States said was China’s inter- The row began in August when to adopt new confidence-build- saying: “we certainly to need to intercept incident about rules of TAIPEI: A Taiwanese court cept of a US Navy patrol plane the United States complained that ing measures, they said, without avoid any incidents that could behaviour for air and maritime yesterday sentenced a former near the southern island prov- a Chinese military aircraft had elaborating on what the measures complicate the relationship.” activities. intelligence officer to 18 years in ince of Hainan. launched a risky intercept of a US would entail. A more serious aggressive Xi is set to meet US President prison for spying for China, the US National Security Adviser Navy patrol plane in international Rice met Fan on her first official intercept by a Chinese fighter jet Barack Obama in Beijing in latest in a series of espionage Susan Rice, on a three-day visit air space. The Chinese pilot flew a visit to China as national security in April 2001 in the same area November. scandals in recent years. to Beijing, told several senior few yards from the US plane and adviser, along with President Xi resulted in a collision that killed Rice also renewed calls for the Lo Chi-cheng, formally a colo- Chinese officials that China must performed acrobatic manoeuvres Jinping, Foreign Minister Wang the Chinese pilot. China held 24 US to establish a “level playing nel in the military intelligence halt the “dangerous intercepts,” around it, the Pentagon said. Yi and State Councillor Yang US air crew members for 11 days field” for US businesses following bureau, was convicted of selling senior Obama administration offi- China said the pilot had done Jiechi. until the United States apologised. Chinese regulatory probes into classified information to China cials said. nothing wrong and that US sur- “When it comes to the issue Ties between the US and US chipmaker Qualcomm Inc and multiple times between 2007 and However, General Fan veillance patrols harm China’s of unsafe intercepts, this is risky China have been impacted by Microsoft Corp. 2010 in return for about $250,000, Changlong, vice chairman national security interests. behaviour that could imperil the China’s increasingly assertive “Use of legal means for intimi- the high court said. of China’s Central Military Despite the disagreement over bilateral relationship,” a senior posture in the South China and dating and harassing US compa- A military tribunal in 2011 had Commission, called on the the incident, Obama administra- US administration official said. East China seas, the cause of sev- nies is antithetical to that,” the sentenced Lo to life in prison, United States to “reduce and tion officials called Rice’s dialogue Hainan is home to several eral territorial disputes between senior administration official said. which he appealed. The high ultimately cease naval and aerial with Chinese leaders on the issue Chinese naval bases as well as a China and US allies including REUTERS court reduced his sentence on the grounds that he had confessed and shown remorse. Dam protest in Malaysia Defence authorities have said “damage control” measures began after Lo was arrested in late 2010 Singapore bans political but have not elaborated. Media reports say Lo sold lists of spies stationed on the mainland and other secret information to documentary on exiles China, which compromised cru- cial Taiwanese intelligence net- SINGAPORE: Singapore yes- not denied the right to return to works and endangered the lives terday banned a local docu- Singapore or forced to leave the of agents. mentary about nine dissidents city-state, as was portrayed in the Lo was recruited by a Taiwanese living in exile, saying its con- movie. businessman, who was sentenced tents undermined national “The government has made it to three years and six months in security. clear that it would allow former jail for his role in the case in a The film “To Singapore, with CPM members to return to separate ruling. Love,” directed by Singaporean Singapore if they agree to be director Tan Pin Pin, features interviewed by the authorities interviews with the former activ- on their past activities to resolve Manila plans to ists and student leaders who fled their cases,” it said. Singapore from the 1960s until A description posted on the expel Canadian the 1980s and are currently set- film’s official website said the tled in countries including Britain documentary explores how the MANILA: The Philippines and Thailand. exiles “lived their lives away and plans to deport a Canadian The 70-minute documentary how they still view the Singapore national this week after he was was released in December last of their dreams.” reported to be “inciting and year and has been screened at “They are now in their 60s to recruiting locals to conduct ter- film festivals in Germany, Dubai, 80s. Some were activists, student rorist activities.” South Korea and the United leaders, others were card carrying Indigenous people and activists gather to protest outside the Association of South East Asian Nations Power The Philippines has been States. communists,” it said. Week conference venue in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, yesterday to call for an immediate stop to the proposed checking raw intelligence reports Singapore’s Media Development Tan, the film’s director, said she construction of at least 31 mega dam projects across the country. that about 100 Muslims in the Authority (MDA) said in a state- was “very disappointed that my predominantly Muslim south had ment it had “assessed that the film is banned.” left the country in response to the contents of the film undermine “By doing this, MDA is tak- global calls of Islamist militants to national security because legiti- ing away an opportunity for us UN urges Jakarta to fill anti-HIV fund fight for Iraq and Syria. mate actions of the security Singaporeans to see it and have Siegfred Mison, head of the agencies to protect the national a conversation about it and our immigration bureau, said the security and stability of Singapore past,” she said in a Facebook post. JAKARTA: Indonesia, one of much lower than a 70 percent like health,” he added. “It is very Canadian, Abu Ameenah Bilal are presented in a distorted way “We need to be trusted to be only three countries in the Asia- target, Cho said. important for the national gov- Philips, would be deported within as acts that victimised innocent able find the answers about our- Pacific region that is seeing a While the domestic budget for ernment to continue to increase the week after the bureau filed a individuals.” selves, for ourselves,” she added. trend of increased HIV infec- tackling HIV/AIDS has increased the proportion of funding for HIV complaint that he was an undesir- It said a number of the exiles But Singapore’s information tions, must plug a $30m funding from $27m in 2010 to $37m this from domestic resources.” able individual. were former members of the minister Yaacob Ibrahim said he gap in its fight against HIV, a year, the current funding gap is The United Nations, in a report, He said Philips was the second Communist Party of Malaya supported the media regulator’s UN official said yesterday. estimated at about $30m, and it said last month new infection foreign national to be deported (CPM) which had sought to over- decision. President-elect Joko Widodo is expected to increase to about rates in Indonesia were a “cause over alleged links with Islamist throw governments in Singapore “Individuals who have cho- should build on the policies imple- $175m by 2020. for concern.” About 0.43 percent militants, after an Australian and Malaysia in the 1950s and sen to leave and remain outside mented by the outgoing adminis- “Indonesia is a middle income of the adult population, or about Islamic preacher caught last July 1960s. Singapore, and refused to account tration, Cho Kah Sin, Indonesia country (and) is going to have 640,000 people, are infected with in Cebu in the central Philippines. “The individuals in the film for their past actions, should not country director for the United a challenge trying to convince HIV in Indonesia. “Based on various sources of have given distorted and untruth- enjoy a public platform to purvey Nations Programme on HIV and international donors to con- Indonesia, Pakistan and the information, he was supposed to ful accounts of how they came to distorted and untruthful accounts AIDS, said. tinue to invest in development Philippines were the only three be inciting and recruiting people leave Singapore and remain out- to mislead the public, absolve Indonesia’s five-year strategic assistance for social and health countries in the Asia-Pacific to conduct terrorist activities,” side Singapore,” the media regula- themselves or deny their past plan to combat HIV/AIDS ends projects,” said Cho. region with a trend of increased Mison told reporters, but gave tor added. actions,” he said in a statement this year and domestic funding “Eventually it will have to pro- HIV infections, the United no details of the sources. MDA said the individuals were on Facebook. AFP of the plan is about 40 percent, vide its own funding for priorities Nations said. REUTERS AGENCIES THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2014 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Dyke blown up to release floodwaters Breach ‘last option’ to save residents in Jhang

LAHORE: Authorities in provincial disaster management National Disaster Management Pakistan have blown up a stra- official said. Authority, and 581,193 ‘affected’ tegic embankment to divert “This breach was the last -- a term that covers every- raging floodwaters away from option to save the lives and prop- thing from loss of property to a city, officials said yesterday, erty of residents in Jhang, this bereavement. as the death toll passed 250 was a must to save the city,” the The army meanwhile has been around the country. official said. carrying out rescue operations, More than half a million The city had a population of deploying seven helicopters and people have been affected by around 400,000 at the last cen- 90 boats in Jhang and the nearby the floods which began in the sus in 1998. district of Chinot to rescue some Himalayan territory of Kashmir Khawaja Asif, minister for 2,500 people, according to a last week and have flown down- defence, water and power, con- statement. river into Pakistan’s populous firmed the breach and told parlia- Authorities were also prepar- Punjab province, the National ment that it was done “to avert ing explosives to breach more Disaster Management Authority catastrophe”. embankments further down- said. Resident Muhammad Zulfiqar, stream to protect the major city The waters have swept away 47 said: “I can see water flowing of Multan, lawmaker Chaudhry homes and destroyed roads and everywhere and the water level Abdul Waheed Arain said, in a swathes of farmland in a chilling has risen up to eight feet in some move that could flood some 200 reminder of the damage wrought villages. Those left behind are on villages. by 2010 floods, the worst in the the rooftops of their houses.” Nusrat Mai, a woman from the country’s history, that killed more A senior rescue official in village of Basti Ghota near Multan People wait to be evacuated from flooded areas in Punjab province, Pakistan, yesterday. than 1,700 people and affected 18 Lahore said that some 100 boats said from a makeshift camp: “The million. were rescuing residents to and floods have completely destroyed the flooding began, more than “It took me seven hours to wife and six children said from In the central city of Jhang more than 4,000 people had so far us, boats came to rescue us...we 20,000 people living in mud houses reach here and my house is nine the village of Naikabad, some 170 in Punjab, authorities deliber- been evacuated in Jhang. don’t have food and we don’t have in remote areas are now facing kilometres away which has been kilometres, east of the region’s ately breached an embankment At least 256 people have been anything.” food shortages after roads were damaged by rains,” Mohammad main city of Muzaffarabad. to divert floodwaters, a senior killed nationwide, according to the In Pakistani Kashmir, where destroyed. Hussain, 60, accompanied by his AFP

65 militants killed in North Final Afghan election results likely next week Waziristan KABUL: Final results in Former Finance Minister be created for the election’s loser. Afghanistan’s disputed presi- Ashraf Ghani was declared the The chief executive job was part ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s mil- dential vote are expected to be winner in preliminary results of of a compromise brokered by US itary said yesterday it had killed released next week, and an elec- the June 14 run-off with 56 per- Secretary of State John Kerry last 65 militants and destroyed five tion official said yesterday that cent of the vote. month as Abdullah’s supporters hideouts in fresh air strikes as a winner would be announced His rival, ex-Foreign Minister began taking to the streets and part of a major offensive against whether or not the two rival Abdullah Abdullah, has charged violence was feared. the Taliban in the northwest. candidates forge a promised massive fraud and said he would Declaring a winner without a Pakistan began the long- power-sharing deal. reject the results if an ongoing political deal could spark a new awaited push to clear insurgent Declaring a victor before a audit does not throw out enough round of street protests that bases from North Waziristan negotiated settlement could ballots to make him president. could deteriorate into violence or district, on the Afghan border, mark a new, dangerous phase of Both candidates have pledged be targeted by Taliban attacks. in June after a bloody attack the crisis surrounding the vote to to form a unity government and Some of Abdullah’s powerful on Karachi airport finally sank succeed President Hamid Karzai, abide by the final results of a backers also have vowed to cre- faltering peace talks with the even as most foreign troops pre- UN-monitored recount and fraud ate a parallel government. rebels. pare to withdraw by the end of audit. But talks about power shar- The dispute could also reignite According to an official state- the year. ing have broken down. Presidential candidates Abdullah Abdullah (left) and Ashraf Ghani ethnic tensions that in the ment, the military first carried Two months of tension over Final results have been delayed past have fuelled civil war in out air strikes early yesterday the fraud-tainted election have several weeks, forcing Karzai to Afghanistan. Ghani is strongly in Datta Khel area of North already marred the smooth tran- stay in office past this month’s and then the final result will be said. “But it would be better if the associated with the Pashtuns, the Waziristan tribal district, killing sition that the US-led military scheduled inauguration of a new ready to be announced,” Barmak candidates reach a deal.” country’s largest ethnicity, while 35, and later targeted a village in force had hoped would mark its leader. said. Ghani, who is widely expected Abdullah draws much of his sup- the Shawal Valley, killing 30. exit 13 years after the invasion to Sareer Ahmad Barmak, a mem- He added that the commis- to emerge the winner even after port from ethnic Tajiks, Hazaras The conflict zone is off-limits to oust the Taliban’s radical Islamist ber of the Independent Election sion was not required to wait for fraudulent votes are disquali- and Uzbeks. journalists, so there is no way to regime. Commission, said the final results Ghani and Abdullah to reach a fied, was scheduled to make an Abdullah on Monday declared independently verify the number Continued instability would would likely be released next deal before announcing the win- announcement later yesterday. he would never accept a fraud- and identity of those killed. provide new openings for the week, though he could not give a ner, and it won’t delay any longer Aides have indicated it will be tainted result, but he has not said Air strikes, artillery, mor- Taliban insurgency against the specific date. if the final results are ready before his final offer to Abdullah over what his next move will be if the tars and ground troops have all newly trained Afghan security “We need two to three days for any agreement. how much power would go with results declare Ghani the winner. been used to retake territory in forces. the technical issues of the vote “We will do our job,” Barmak a new chief executive position to REUTERS North Waziristan, which had become a haven for fighters with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Would-be bomber held (TTP) and other militant outfits. The military has said the major towns of Miranshah and Mir Ali had now been cleared of insurgents, along with a 90-kil- ometre road through North Waziristan. Pakistan’s semi-autonomous tribal areas on the Afghan bor- der have for years been a hide- out for Islamist militants of all stripes -- including Al Qaeda and the homegrown TTP as well as foreign fighters such as Uzbeks and Uighurs. Attack on polio team kills cop

BAJAUR: Gunmen killed a policeman guarding a polio vac- cination team in Pakistan’s restive northwest yesterday, officials said, the latest attack on health workers trying to tackle the crippling disease. Pakistan is one of only three countries in the world where Afghan policeman stand guard next to five alleged suicide bombers, as they are being shown to media polio remains endemic but efforts in Mazar-i-Sharif, yesterday. Security officials arrested five men, who were allegedly planning suicide to stamp it out have been badly bombing on potential targets. hit in recent years by attacks on immunisation teams. The country has seen 117 cases of polio so far this year -- out- Airstrike in Kabul kills 14 civilians stripping the 93 reported in the whole of 2013. The latest attack was in Bajaur, KABUL: A US air strike in bombardment...14 civilians, Nato’s International Security one of seven tribal areas on the eastern Afghanistan killed including two children and Assistance Force (ISAF), which border with Afghanistan where 14 civilians, local officials two women, were killed, and often stresses that avoiding polio is a particular problem. said yesterday, sparking con- 12 more injured,” said a state- civilian casualties is a major “A member of the tribal police demnation from President ment from the presidential priority, said it was ‘currently guarding a polio vaccination team Hamid Karzai who has often palace. looking into the circumstances’ was killed when the team came criticised the conduct of “President Hamid Karzai of the operation. under attack in Damadola area Nato forces now leaving the condemns in the strongest It added that a separate of Bajaur agency”, local adminis- country. terms the bombardment by ‘precision strike’ elsewhere in tration official Shah Nasim Khan Civilian casualties caused by American forces.” Kunar on Tuesday resulted in said. the US-led military coalition It added the strike on the death of one armed militant He said the attackers lay in during the war against Taliban Tuesday occurred in the and no civilian casualties. wait for the polio team in nearby insurgents have been one of the Narang district of Kunar, one Abdul Hadi Sayedkhil, the fields before opening fire. most contentious issues in the of the country’s most vola- police chief of Kunar said that The health workers escaped 13-year combat campaign that tile provinces. Kunar borders a joint Afghan-Nato patrol was unharmed. will end by December. Pakistan, where many Taliban ambushed in Narang by mili- AGENCIES “As a result of a US aerial seek shelter. tants. AFP THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2014 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

Floods cause Over 76,500 evacuated in Kashmir havoc in Army deploys 329 columns for rescue and relief; hundreds still remain trapped Vadodara,

SRINAGAR/JAMMU: Over the intervening night of Saturday The Srinagar-Jammu high- Medical Services have also swung and Anantnag is in progress and 300,000 hit 76,500 people have been res- and Sunday. way continued to remain closed into action,” the defence ministry Jammu to KM 172 is open for cued in Jammu and Kashmir “Unless the flood waters recede for the seventh day Wednesday, statement said. light vehicular traffic. Jammu- AHMEDABAD: More than and relief efforts were on in completely, and we are able to but traffic on the over 440km- So far, 79 transport aircraft Poonch road has been cleared for 300,000 people have been badly the flood-hit parts of the state reach all the submerged areas, we long Srinagar-Leh highway was and helicopters of the Indian Air traffic,” the statement said. hit as flood waters entered more where hundreds still remained cannot be sure about the exact restored on Tuesday. This road Force and Army Aviation Corps Fifteen engineering task force than 1,000 residential socie- trapped even as the flood waters toll in these floods,” a top state connects the Kashmir Valley with have been pressed into service. teams along with boats and other ties and colonies in Gujarat’s continued to recede yesterday, official said in Srinagar. the Ladakh region. The statement added that more lifesaving equipment have reached Vadodara city, officials and resi- officials said adding that at Officials said Over 76,500 An acute crisis of petrol and relief material, including 2,000 the flood-affected areas to supple- dents said yesterday. least 215 people have died in the marooned people have been res- kerosene had hit the Valley. On hospital bed sheets, blankets and ment the rescue operation. With heavy rains lashing inundation. cued so far in the state, but they Wednesday, all filing stations in tents, water bottles and cooked The situation was being con- Vadodara since Tuesday, police A massive rescue and relief also confirmed Wednesday that Srinagar said they had run out food are being air-lifted yesterday. tinuously monitored at the and the National Disaster operation by the Indian Armed many more could still be trapped of fuel. So far, 613 sorties were under- headquarters of the Integrated Response Force (NDRF) are busy Forces and the National Disaster in submerged areas. The rescuers from the Indian taken by the helicopters and air- Defence Staff (IDS) in New Delhi. rescuing the marooned and shift- Response Force (NDRF) was in The water level of the river Armed Forces and the National craft of the armed forces and 715 A fallout of the floods has been ing them to safer areas. progress on a “war footing” in Jhelum continued to recede in Disaster Response Force (NDRF) tonnes of relief materials were the breakdown of the communi- Roads in and around Vadodara Jammu and Kashmir with over Srinagar and throughout the have distributed 8,200 blankets dropped by the Indian Air Force. cation systems in the Valley. The city have been submerged, virtu- 76,500 people rescued so far, a Kashmir Valley yesterday. and 650 tents so far to those As many as 135 army boats and radio station and Doordarshan ally crippling traffic. defence ministry statement said Areas like Rajbagh, Jwahar affected by the floods. 148 inflatable boats of the NDRF facility have been shut for the last Water from the overflowing in Jammu. Nagar, Gogjibagh, Bemina, The army also has distributed are actively involved in the rescue four days. All cell phone service Vishvamitri river, which passes The statement said the army Mehjor Nagar, Karan Nagar 150,000 litres of water, 2.6 tonnes operation. providers, except Aircel, went on through the city, have entered has deployed 329 columns of its and Qamarwari in the Srinagar of biscuits, seven tonnes of baby To restore road connectivity, the blink, snapping connectivity. the Sayaji Hospital, forcing personnel for rescue and relief city were still submerged under food and 28,000 food packets in five task forces of Border Roads Many Kashmiris feel the state authorities to move its patients operations, of which 244 columns flood waters. “Thirty-one people the flood-affected areas. Organisation, which include 5,700 government has failed to reach elsewhere. were deployed in the Srinagar are still missing in the landslide “Additional water bottles are personnel, have been pressed into out to the people. The Sayaji Baug Zoo is under region and 85 in the Jammu tragedy in which 40 people died in being air-lifted from Chandigarh service. “As of now, they have All police stations were Tuesday four feet of water. But authorities region. Panchauri area in the Udhampur and Delhi. In an endeavour to restored the road connectiv- directed to locate heads of vari- managed to shift the animals to Many people remained trapped district Tuesday,” Deputy provide speedy medical aid to ity between Batote — Kishtwar ous government departments for safer places. in Srinagar city alone that was Inspector General of Police Garib the affected populace, 80 medi- and Kishtwar — Sinthan Pass. a meeting in Srinagar yesterday. All schools and colleges in inundated in flood waters during Das said yesterday. cal teams of the Armed Forces The work between Sinthan Pass IANS Vadodara have been ordered shut. Residents said that the floods were comparable to the 2005 Modi reviews disaster which too caused havoc in Vadodara, the third largest city in Gujarat after Surat and relief efforts Ahmedabad. The Sardar Sarovar Narmada Dam in neighbouring Bharuch in Kashmir district was overflowing by three metres. The Vishvamitri river was NEW DELHI: Prime Minister flowing above the danger mark. Narendra Modi yesterday directed Relief and rescue operations the authorities to provide food and have been launched, officials said, water to the flood-affected people adding security forces were dis- of Jammu and Kashmir where the tributing food and medicines to toll has crossed 200. the needy. At a high-level emergency The army has been asked to meeting on relief operations in stand by in Vadodara. The weath- the state, Modi was briefed on the erman has said that heavy rains status of operations, especially in are likely to continue in Gujarat. Srinagar and the Kashmir Valley, said a statement from the Prime Minister Office (PMO). Punjab issues The prime minister asked the authorities to give top priority to notice to 55 provide essential commodities to the affected people in Srinagar. absent staff He also told the home minis- try “to immediately depute sen- CHANDIGARH: The Punjab ior officers from Delhi and other government yesterday issued states to coordinate the relief show-cause notices to 55 Punjab operations with the local admin- Secretariat employees who were istration in Srinagar”. found absent during a surprise Modi said that in view of the huge check by state Chief Secretary magnitude of the calamity, the cen- Sarvesh Kaushal. tral government needs to provide “Cracking the whip on erring full support to the state administra- late-coming staff posted in the tion, to comprehensively ramp-up Punjab Civil Secretariat here, the the rescue and relief operations. secretariat administration today The prime minister emphasised An aerial view of the flood effected area in Srinagar, Kashmir, yesterday. issued show-cause notice to 55 the need for a massive effort to employees who were not found ensure basic hygiene and sanitation on their seats at 09.07 hours in the water-logged areas of Srinagar. Climate change may have caused floods: CSE during a surprise check con- Modi was informed that the ducted by Punjab Chief Secretary process of restoration of telecom- Sarvesh Kaushal. They have been munication links has begun, with NEW DELHI: The devastating scale of disaster in Jammu and have a flood forecasting system. precipitation over most regions.” issued the notice under Section about 8,000 landlines being re- floods in Jammu and Kashmir Kashmir has been exacerbated Its disaster management system She exhorted the government 10 of the Punjab Civil Services activated in Srinagar. could be a manifestation of by unplanned development, espe- is also rudimentary,” he said. to come out of its denial mode (Punishment and Appeal) Rules, Arrangements are being made extreme weather events induced cially along the river banks. Narain said that accord- that climate change is not affect- 1970,” an official spokesman said. for provision of food, water and by climate change, the Centre She said: “In the last 100 years, ing to the latest analysis by the ing us. He said that four under-secre- essential medicines, the PMO for Science and Environment more than 50 percent of lakes, Working Group II of the IPCC “The government must discard taries have also been issued expla- said. Modi also called for coordi- said yesterday. ponds and wetlands of Srinagar (Intergovernmental Panel on its ostrich-like policy and get out nation call for their failure in not nating the relief efforts of volun- Sunita Narain, Director have been encroached upon for Climate Change) assessment of its denial mode. We will have ensuring punctuality of staff work- tary organisations as well. General of CSE, said the calami- constructing buildings and roads. report (AR5), floods and droughts to see the linkages between cli- ing under them and for lax supervi- The meeting was attended by ties in Mumbai (2005), Leh The banks of the Jhelum river are likely to increase in India. mate change and the events such sion. Those found absent included Minister of State in the PMO (2010), Uttarakhand (2013) and have been taken over in a simi- She added: “The IPCC’s 2011 as those unfolding in Jammu and four superintendents, 20 senior Jitendra Singh, the cabinet secretary, now Jammu and Kashmir show a lar manner, vastly reducing the special report on managing the Kashmir. We will have to accept assistants, seven personal staff of the principal secretary to the prime similar pattern of extreme rain- river’s drainage capacity.” risks of extreme events and dis- that climate change is going to ministers and 24 other employees. minister, the additional principal fall, which can be a result of cli- CSE Deputy General Girector asters to advance climate change affect us more and more in the The errant staff have been secretary to the prime minister, and mate change. Chandra Bhushan said Jammu adaptation presents projections future. We will have to start pre- asked to submit their reply within other senior secretaries of the gov- She said that as was the and Kashmir is not prepared to for the period 2071-2100. It paring to adapt to the climate seven days or face disciplinary ernment as well as defence officials. case with some of the previ- handle extreme rainfall events. points to increasing incidents of change,” she said. action. IANS ous extreme rainfall events, the “Jammu and Kashmir does not more frequent and intense heavy IANS IANS

Chick business Jaitley out of hospital, to skip G20

NEW DELHI: Finance his weight by 14kg to 104kg. “His Delivering his maiden budget in Minister Arun Jaitley was diabetes is now under control and July, he took a break half-way released from hospital yetserday his kidneys are functioning much through and gave the second part after a longer-than-expected better,” Chowbey said, adding of his address seated. stay for treatment, and will miss Jaitley would now be fit to travel. In a government short of a meeting of finance ministers The former lawyer is one of cabinet bench strength, Jaitley’s from the Group of 20 nations in the most powerful figures in the health over the next few months Australia next week. Hindu nationalist government will be critical to the success of Jaitley was admitted to a pri- formed in May by Prime Minister economic reforms, such as a pro- vate hospital in New Delhi on Narendra Modi, holding responsi- posed nationwide General Sales September 1 for planned surgery bility for both finance and defence. Tax, or GST. to manage a long-standing diabetic “The minister will not attend The GST would unify India’s condition, and had originally been the G20 meeting though he 29 states into a common mar- expected to leave after a few days. would start attending the cabinet ket for the first time, cutting red The 61-year-old minister meeting from today itself,” said tape while broadening the govern- underwent a minimally-inva- finance ministry spokesman D.S. ment’s tax base. Economists esti- sive gastric bypass procedure, Malik. Modi was due to chair a mate it could add two percentage intended to cut appetite and pre- routine ministerial meeting on points to India’s economy. vent weight gain that is often suf- Wednesday evening. Jaitley will be represented at fered by those with the condition. Although Jaitley has made the September 20-21 meeting of Pardeep Chowbey, the direc- no secret of his condition, some G20 finance ministers in Cairns, tor of the Max Institute hospital commentators have questioned Australia, by Commerce Minister Coloured chicks for sale at a roadside stall in Amritsar yesterday. Stall-owner Ashok earns approximately where Jaitley was treated, said whether his health is strong Nirmala Sitharaman, who also holds Rs200 per day selling chicks. the procedure had been success- enough to shoulder the burden the post of deputy finance minister. ful, helping the minister to reduce of running two big ministries. REUTERS THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2014 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

Sushma in Afghanistan AAP seeks Saradha scam: revision of LG’s letter to CBI questions president NEW DELHI: The AAP yes- terday said it has requested Trinamool MP Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung to revise the let- ter sent to President Pranab Party announces indefinite protest Mukherjee seeking permission to invite the BJP to form gov- KOLKATA: Carrying for- “We are always ready to coop- ernment in Delhi. ward its probe into the Saradha erate with the law. And we have The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) scam, the CBI yesterday grilled told them, whenever and what- has accused the BJP of indulging Trinamool Congress MP ever papers they seek, we will in horse-trading, and sought dis- Srinjoy Bose for seven hours. provide,” he said. solution of the assembly. As the political temperatures The CBI sleuths also ques- AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal met rose in West Bengal, the ruling tioned Samir Chakraborty, hus- Jung yesterday and submitted a Trinamool announced indefi- band of Trinamool leader and letter to him along with a copy nite protest sit-in outside the Bidhannagar Municipality chair- of a CD of the “sting” operation agency’s office here from today. person Krishna Chakraborty. which shows AAP legislator Dinesh While the opposition trained A day earlier, the CBI arrested Mohaniya being offered a bribe of guns on Chief Minister Mamata Trinamool leader and former Rs40m by a Bharatiya Janata Party Banerjee in connection with the director general (armed police) (BJP) leader to quit the assembly multi-billion rupee scam, the of West Bengal Rajat Majumdar to improve the BJP’s chances of Trinamool dubbed the Central in connection with the scam. Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj arrives for an inauguration ceremony on Wazir Akbar Khan hill in Kabul forming a government in Delhi. Bureau of Investigation as a pawn Majumdar, the first Trinamool yesterday. Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Sushma Swaraj raised the largest Afghan flag in Kabul as “In your September 4 letter to used to settle political scores by leader to be arrested by the CBI, she announced a $1m donation to build a park on Wazir Akbar Khan hill. the president, you have recom- the BJP-led central government. complained of chest pain soon mended invitation to the BJP to Bose, owner-editor of the after being taken into custody and form the government. The devel- Bengali daily Pratidin, was quizzed was rushed to the state-run NRS opments in the past few days have by CBI sleuths at its office located Medical College and Hospital. made it clear that the BJP does not within the CGO complex of the Now admitted in the hospital’s Remove concept of minority: ABVP want to form the government in satellite township of Salt Lake. Intensive Cardiac Care Unit, he is accordance with the constitution,” Bose was named by alleged undergoing tests. the letter written in Hindi said. scam mastermind and Saradha A court during the day gave NEW DELHI: The concept the post of vice president and is bringing a feeling of harmony. “Hence, we request you to again Group chairman Sudipta Sen in deemed judicial custody of of minority should be removed pursuing PhD in Hindi literature This has been wrongly propagated write a letter to the president a letter he purportedly wrote to Majumdar to the CBI. A number in India as it creates ill feel- from this prestigious university and people need to understand apprising him of how the BJP was the CBI in April last year. of MPs and close associates of ing among people of different that has an international stand- this concept,” Dewan said. violating the constitution... We Sen, now under arrest with his powerful leaders of the Trinamool communities, said Md Jahidul ing. He is completing his thesis Coming from Barpeta in lower request you to urge the president top aides, said in the letter that have faced grilling from central Dewan, the Muslim face of on comparative study of Hindi Assam, Dewan has seen commu- to dissolve the Delhi assembly,” after he purchased a television agencies like the CBI and the the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi and Assamese literature. nal violence since a very young the letter added. channel, Bose alongwith a sen- Enforcement Directorate (ED). Parishad (ABVP), who is con- Dewan is the second Muslim can- age. “Whether it be Assam, or Earlier, AAP leader Manish ior journalist of the newspaper, Facing opposition rap over its testing in the Jawaharlal Nehru didate to be fielded by the ABVP, Muzzafarnagar, two communities do Sisodia too met Jung here and Kunal Ghosh, came to him and leaders’ alleged involvement in University Student’s Union a student wing of the Rashtriya not fight without any reason. Violence said: “We requested him (Jung) he had to make arrangement for the scam, the Trinamool launched (JNUSU) election. Swayamsevak Sangh, since 1998. It is ignited by some vested interests or to revise the letter sent to the paying Rs.60 lakh per month to a counter attack. Dewan is also a staunch propo- was in 1998-1999 that ABVP first people who want to derive political president seeking his permission the newspaper for running the “The CBI is being used as nent of “Hindutva”, an ideology fielded a Muslim candidate. The mileage from such clashes,” he said. to invite the BJP to form the gov- channel. a political agency. To protest that he feels has been misinter- candidate at that time lost the elec- Having been drawn to the ernment in Delhi, as the party “(The paper) has also given me against the misuse of the CBI preted, and says he would work tion. But Dewan this time is confi- ABVP since he joined the cam- is trying to form a government assurance that on execution of to settle political scores, we will for Hindu-Muslim harmony. dent he will win the post. pus in 2011, Dewan said whether through horse-trading.” this agreement they will protect start an indefinite sit-in demon- “I strongly believe that the con- The JNUSU election is slated it be RSS or the Bharatiya Janata Sisodia also said that if the my business from the government stration outside the CBI office cept of minority should be done for September 12, when the uni- Party (BJP), both are very clear government is formed through i.e from the state government and at the Salt Lake CGO Complecx away in our country. This creates versity students union will elect about not playing vote bank poli- horse-trading, its problems such the central government, and I will from 11am tomorrow (Thursday),” a kind of ill feeling among people. its president, vice president, gen- tics. “This was the main reason as corruption, school education be able to get a smooth passage Trinamool Mahila Morcha West Remove this concept of minority, eral secretary and joint secretary. that drew me to ABVP,” he added. and price rise will not be solved. and they assured me that they Bengal unit president Chandrima but yes take initiative and pro- A strong believer of “Hindutva” “The Left-wing All India “If such a government is formed have very close connection with Bhattacharya told IANS. mote those people who are educa- as promoted by his parent body, Students Association (AISA) in Delhi, then it will be a burden Mamata Banerjee.” Hours earlier, Panchayat tionally and culturally backward,” Dewan feels that the concept has tries to garner votes in JNU by on the people of Delhi... So, we Coming out after the marathon Minister Subrata Mukherjee Dewan, 29, said in an interview. been wrongly interpreted due to indulging in vote bank politics. have requested the Lieutenant interrogation, Bose said the CBI alleged a conspiracy to “defame “Give them education and which the RSS has got a bad name. They say Muslims are getting Governor to revise the contents of had called him for some clarifica- Mamata Banerjee, whose cred- help promote them, but having “Hindutva is not associated exploited. At least ABVP does not his letter and this time seek dis- tion regarding his paper’s agree- ibility is beyond question”. this tag of minority is not good,” with religion but it is about pro- do that,” added Dewan. solution of the assembly,” he said. ment with Saradha. IANS said Dewan. He is contesting for moting language and culture and IANS IANS

UP police file charges against 15-point charter of action to tone up CPWD NEW DELHI: The govern- public perception about func- It said accountability should be audit of works by organisations measures to make government Amit Shah for ment yesterday drew up a tioning of the major construction enforced by taking action against with no conflict of interest should buildings energy efficient while 15-point charter of action to organisation of the government. officers responsible for delays be undertaken for which services assuring of “sensitive adminis- tone up the CPWD, asking the The release said a 15-point while payments to contractors of reputed institutions like IITs tration” by addressing genuine hate speech agency to ensure time frames charter of action has been drawn should be made via electronic can be availed and there should be individual problems of employ- for each construction activity up to improve the functioning of mode only. zero tolerance for irregularities. ees, including posting of spouses LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh and file clearance besides action the CPWD. The charter calls for decen- It says there should be man- as per government guidelines. Police yesterday filed a for project delay. The department has been asked tralised decision making to avoid datory field inspection visits by Naidu urged the CPWD to chargesheet against BJP According to a urban devel- to evolve Standard Operating delays. “Only substantial and pol- senior officers and regular sub- go by Prime Minister Narendra president Amit Shah in opment ministry release, the Procedures, including specific icy issues to be referred to CPWD mission of inspection reports Modi’s vision of “skill, speed and Muzaffarnagar over a speech working of Central Public time frames for each construc- headquarters while regional heads besides review for correctional scale” and assured there would delivered by him during the Lok Works Department (CPWD) tion activity. to dispose of/resolve all other interventions for timely execu- be no political interference in its Sabha election campaign, offi- was reviewed on the initiative The charter says project details issues.” tion of projects. functioning. cials said. of Urban Development Minister should be made available online It says file clearance should not The charter says punctuality The minister said he will write The speech was reportedly M Venkaiah Naidu at a two-day and via “information display take more than five days, adding should be ensured by introducing to all chief ministers to enable delivered by the Bharatiya Janata brainstorming session held here. boards” at all work sites with cost, sufficient number of contractors bio-metric attendance marking design certification by CPWD Party chief on April 4. During the review that con- schedule, features, contact of per- should be empanelled for better systems and cleanliness should be architects to do away with further He was then booked by the cluded late on Tuesday evening, son for complaints and reasons for response to tenders. ensured at all offices and work sites. approval by local bodies. local police for breaching pro- Naidu voiced his concerns over delay, if any. The charter says third party It also calls for immediate IANS hibitory orders under section 144. He was at that time in charge of the BJP poll campaign in Uttar Pradesh. Tiger dance Now, more sections — 153(a), 295(a) and 505 of the Indian Women on Wings targets Penal Code have been added in the chargesheet. Under these sections, Shah has been accused of using foul words one million jobs by 2018 against a community and of try- ing to disrupt communal har- NEW DELHI: A social enter- provides consultancy to organisa- mony, threatening the state and prise, Women on Wings targets tions having a minimum of 250-300 the people. to create one million jobs for women on the rolls. There are 60 If the charges are proved to be women in rural India by 2018, Dutch experts who provide consul- true, the BJP president could face an official said yesterday. tancy through Women on Wings. a prison term of three years. Founder Ellen Tacoma told a The aim of the mission is to All the sections are non-baila- roundtable meeting here: “Being make the businesses profitable ble, an official said, and Shah will economically independent is so without any subsidies and grants. have to present himself before a important for women. We tar- “Of late, Tata Group associated court. get to create one million jobs for with us. We will look forward to Reacting to the chargesheet, women in rural India by working many more Indian companies to state BJP spokesman Vijay with Indian organisations. We join us in the future,” Tacoma Bahadur Pathak said the initial have a target to touch 170,000 jobs said. Women on Wings works with charges levelled against Shah by the end of 2014.” Women on experts having at least 15 years of were responded to by the BJP in Wings that provides business con- experience in the corporate sector. May as sought by the Election sultancy to social entrepreneurs Talking about the importance Commission. was founded in September 2007 in of women participation in the “In the wake of the new devel- the Netherlands and has a pres- overall economy, Ambassador of opments, the party would contest ence in India since 2010. Netherlands Alphonsus Stoelinga the charges legally,” he said. Tacoma said the number of jobs said: “In India, women’s contri- Pathak accused the rul- created for rural women in India bution to GDP (Gross Domestic ing Samajwadi Party in Uttar Performers painted to look like tigers dance during festivities marking the end of the annual harvest festival has so far touched 125,200. Product) is very low. This has to Pradesh of indulging in a politi- of Onam in Trichur city in Kerala yesterday. The 10-day long festival symbolises the return of King Mahabali It also signed a Memorandum of go up for the overall social and cal vendetta. to meet his subjects. Cooperation with the National Skill economic development.” IANS Development Council yesterday. It IANS THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2014 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

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LONDON: Oil dropped to a 17-month US output in August hit its highest low close to $98 a barrel yesterday Gulf states not worried by oil price slide level since 1986. as rising supplies and weak demand The United States is the world’s helped extend losses into a fifth ses- KUWAIT CITY: A top Kuwaiti oil executive said the energy-rich Gulf largest oil consumer and as recently as sion, while Opec lowered the pro- states are not worried by the slide in oil prices after Brent crude slumped 2010 was reliant on imports for almost jected demand for its crude and US to a 17-month low yesterday. 50 percent of its consumption. That is product stocks jumped. “We are not worried at the drop in oil prices; we expect it to rebound to expected to fall to just over 20 percent International benchmark Brent its previous levels soon. We are optimistic,” the acting oil undersecretary, Ali next year, the EIA said. crude has fallen by 15 percent since bin Sabt, told reporters on the sidelines of a Gulf meeting in Kuwait City. Libya’s oil output has also recov- hitting a year high above $115 a barrel But he acknowledged that the drop in prices “affects Gulf economies and ered to more than 800,000 bpd despite in June, with fast-rising US output and requires coordination among the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states,” political instability in the country, the the return of exports from Libya cre- which heavily rely on oil exports. National Oil Corp said yesterday. The ating a market that looks increasingly Sabt was speaking as senior GCC energy officials prepared for a regular country’s Prime Minister Abdallah over-supplied. meeting of oil ministers today. AFP Al-Thinni said it could hit 1 million While the US Energy Information bpd next month. Administration (EIA) reported a near Kilduff, partner at Again Capital LLC leading to a supply glut in the Atlantic Traders are increasingly moving oil 1 million barrel drop in US crude stocks in New York. Basin and Asia. into storage in a bid to sell it forward last week it was a slightly smaller fall Brent crude for October delivery Total production from members for later delivery at a higher price, than the market expected with refin- hit a low of $98.02 a barrel, the low- of the Organisation of the Petroleum with spot prices falling to an increas- DOHA: H E Dr Mohamed bin Saleh Al Sada ers upping production before the start est intraday price since April 18, 2013. Exporting Countries (Opec) rose ing discount due to increasing supplies, (pictured), the Minister of Energy and Industry, of post-summer maintenance. Price It was trading down $1.02 at $98.11 a last month despite Saudi Arabia, the a market structure known as contango. yesterday left for Kuwait as the head of Qatar’s declines increased after the report. barrel at 1457 GMT. group’s largest member, saying it had Chinese trader Unipec has booked delegation to the 33rd ministerial meeting of the Inventories at Cushing, Oklahoma, US crude was down $1.20 at $91.55 cut output, according to the group’s the world’s largest ship, a 3.2 million GCC Petroleum Cooperation Committee, which the closely-watched delivery point a barrel having hit the lowest since monthly market report. barrel capacity supertanker, to store will be held in Kuwait City today. of the US crude oil contract, rose by January at $91.46. Its discount to Brent The Opec report also cut the fore- Russian oil until prices recover, trading The meeting will discuss several issues related to 77,000 barrels while gasoline and distil- narrowed in early trading to just over cast for the expected demand for crude sources said this week, with analysts the Gulf joint action in the energy field, mainly the late stocks — which include diesel and $6 a barrel, the lowest since mid- from the group by 160,000 barrels per estimating about 50 million barrels of possibility to unify the prices of petroleum prod- heating oil — jumped by 2.4 million and August, before widening again. day (bpd) in both 2014 and 2015 due oil have already moved into floating ucts in the GCC, the developments in the meet- 4.1 million barrels respectively. Oil prices on both sides of the to stronger supply from countries out- storage. ings related to the United Nations Framework “The report is very bearish given Atlantic have dropped over the past side the organisation. “The oil (price) As prices have fallen due to higher Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto the large increases in refined product three months, dragged down by soar- horizon does not look rosy for oil production, some traders have said Protocol, as well as the meetings of the GCC inventories, and even though the crude ing US shale oil production which has producers,” said PVM Oil Associates that risks to supply from the Ukraine Petroleum Media Committee. The meeting will also drawdown was close to expectations, replaced many imports from West Managing Director David Hufton. crisis and the difficult security situa- review the latest developments in the oil market. it seemed to disappoint,” said John Africa, Europe and other regions, The US EIA said on Tuesday that tion in Iraq still remain. REUTERS THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2014 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS GCC fertiliser Qatar businesses firmly optimistic industry BOI for non-hydrocarbons at 39 strengthening DOHA: Optimism among business services segments. Qatar’s business community Overall, 61 percent of firms in the remains firm for the third sector expect an increase in sales, food security quarter of 2014. The composite 64 percent expect an increase in Business Optimism Index (BOI) orders and 40 percent expect to DOHA: The GCC’s export-ori- for Qatar’s non-hydrocarbon invest in business expansion in ented fertiliser industry is set to sector stood at 39, the same as Q3, 2014. play a key role in fortifying global for Q3, 2013. About half of all respondents — food security, says a new report However, it is eight points 44 percent of firms in the hydro- by the Gulf Petrochemicals & lower than in Q2, 2014, primarily carbon sector and 51 percent of Chemicals Association (GPCA) because of the expected seasonal firms in the non-hydrocarbon sec- and Nexant. downturn in business activity dur- tor — do not anticipate any hin- According to The Role of GCC ing the holy month of Ramadan drances to their daily operations Fertilisers in Addressing Food and the summer. in Q3, 2014. Security, upcoming fertiliser Within the non-hydrocarbon The composite BOI for the capacity additions for ammonia sector, manufacturing is the most hydrocarbon sector has been and urea products will be critical strongly optimistic for Q3, backed steadily declining since Q4, 2013 for the farmlands in South and by demand from new projects, an and now stands at one, down from South East Asia, highly populous overall strong economy and a ris- eight in Q2, 2014 and 13 in the regions which often lack natural ing population. At 46, the BOI is thuird quarter of 2013. resources to produce fertilisers for 11 points higher than in the same This is in line with the pro- strengthening agricultural pro- period of 2013. jected contraction in GDP from FROM LEFT: Yousef Mohammed Al Jaida, Deputy CEO of QFC Authority, Sheikh Mohammed bin Faisal Al Thani, ductivity. “In addition to gaining According to the latest BOI the hydrocarbon sector during Board Member, Qatari Businessmen Association, Sarah Abdallah, Deputy General Manager and Prashant Kumar, valuable export revenues for the survey, conducted by Dun and 2014. According to International Associate Director, Dun and Bradstreet South Asia Middle East Ltd at the press briefing of the latest Business region’s economies, fertiliser pro- Bradstreet in collaboration Monetary Fund forecasts, Qatar’s Optimism Index in Doha yesterday. KAMMUTTY VP ducers will soon make significant with QFC Authority and Qatari real GDP from the hydrocarbon contributions to the global food Businessmen’s Association sector will contract by 1 percent banks,” said Dr Abdulwahab al (QBA), seasonal factors were the during 2014. in business expansion in Q3 com- companies. Of SMEs, 53 percent Deputy CEO of the QFC Sadoun, Secretary General, GPCA. main cause for a sharp fall in the Qatari businesses have mod- pared with respectively 31 percent said they did not anticipate any Authority, said: “It is very encour- “By 2030, the world will need to index for the finance, real estate estly scaled back their outlook and 41 percent firms in Q2, 2014. hindrances to their operations in aging to see from this BOI survey feed an estimated 2 billion more and business services sector. for investment in business expan- In general, small and medium- Q3, 2014, while the corresponding that Qatar’s businesses remain people, so fertilizers will be crucial However, finance and insurance sion: 24 percent of hydrocarbon sized enterprises (SMEs) are number for large companies is 45 firmly optimistic despite the sea- in ensuring that these individu- firms continue to have a stronger firms and 38 percent of non- more optimistic about the busi- percent. sonal downturn.” als have access to edible, sufficient outlook than the real estate and hydrocarbon firms plan to invest nesses environment than large Yousef Mohammed Al Jaida, THE PENINSULA and nutritious food.” The Gulf’s fertiliser capacity reached 42.7 million tonnes in 2013, nearly half of which was exported to markets across the world, as per GPCA data. The GCC’s fertiliser Focus on evolving insurance rules Gold nears 7-month low sector is also growing: production gained 4 percent from the previ- ous year, while the global fertiliser DOHA: KPMG in Qatar held a industry grew by just 1.7 percent seminar on evolving insurance on Fed rate hike fears in the same period. regulation yesterday in which Fertiliser sector growth has the speakers focussed on the NEW YORK/LONDON: Gold underestimated the speed at been augmented by the GCC’s vast evolving insurance regulations fell 0.7 percent yesterday, trad- which the Fed might raise rates. reserves of natural gas, essential in Qatar and globally, risk man- ing near its lowest in seven “While bullion prices at cur- for producing ammonia and urea agement best practices. Experts months at just over $1,240 an rent levels reflect, to an extent, fertilisers. With relatively low also elaborated about how risk ounce, pulled down by fears expectations for tighter mone- domestic demand, the Gulf’s fer- managers can use techniques that encouraging economic data tary policies, it does not preclude tiliser exports are set continue to such as stress and scenario could prompt the US Federal prices from falling further should rise in the long term. testing and economic capital Reserve to raise interest rates the upcoming FOMC statement “Due to the region’s arid and management. sooner than expected. be viewed as more hawkish than desert climate, the GCC has tra- Yacoub Hobeika, Partner from Bullion’s losses weighed on anticipated,” said James Steel, ditionally relied on food imports KPMG in Qatar explained that platinum and palladium for a chief precious metals analyst at to feed its population,” continued the impact of international and second day, while keeping silver HSBC. Spot gold hit its weakest Dr al Sadoun. “However, with the regional reforms, put in place over under the key $19 mark. since early June at $1,246.56 an growing trend towards exporting the past few years following the The yellow metal largely ounce and was down 0.6 percent fertilizers to major agricultural global financial crisis six years ignored geopolitical factors ahead at $1,248.30 an ounce at 1606 regions that have the world’s ago, has been immense and has KPMG officials Adeel Mushtaq, David Kirk and Yacoub Hobeika, at a seminar of US President Barack Obama’s GMT. fastest population growth rates, directly affected insurers. “We on Insurance Regulations in Doha yesterday. SALIM MATRAMKOT speech to outline a strategy Those prices were less than $10 the Gulf’s leadership can lever- have seen lots of developments against Islamic State, a group in above $1,240.69, bullion’s lowest age these ties to develop closer coming from the International Iraq whose savage methods have price since February. relationships with major food Association Insurance best practices in evolving regula- they can also be complex, expen- included the beheading of two US COMEX gold futures for producing regions like the Far Supervisors, Qatar Central Bank tory environment. “With so much sive and unwieldy,” said Kirk. American captives. December delivery outperformed East and South Asian countries. and the Qatar Financial Centre regulatory change and advance- Adeel Mushtaq, Senior Manager Investors were anticipating a spot, up 40 cents at $1,248.90. The growth of the GCC fertiliser Regulatory Authority which have ment in risk management prac- for KPMG in Qatar and firm’s more hawkish stance on mon- The dollar index held near industry, therefore, has the poten- had a positive impact on the sec- tices, insurers in the Qatar and the regional insurance expert shared etary policy from the Fed’s Open Tuesday’s 14-month high, up 0.1 tial not only to overcome serious tor,” said Hobeika. wider region need to decide where his views on evolving insurance Market Committee (FOMC) at its percent against a basket of cur- food security challenges, but also David Kirk, head of the to focus their attention first. regulations, implications for insur- next policy meeting on September rencies. A recent pullback in to raise the region’s profile as a Actuarial Practice for KPMG While Internal Economic Capital ers in Qatar and how best to adopt 16-17, after a study from the crude oil prices, which fell 1 per- major trade partner and producer in South Africa shared insights Models can provide useful insights a target operating model. San Francisco Fed released on cent yesterday, also broadly pres- of high-value commodities.” from global perspective, tools and into risk and capital management, THE PENINSULA Monday showed that investors sured precious metals. REUTERS THE PENINSULA

Senior officials of the company at the launch. Ezdan Holding launches website DOHA: Ezdan Holding Group yes- our audience on the internet, which has terday launched its official website at become the most important and preva- a ceremony attended by senior offi- lent means of mass communication of all.” cials of the company, including Group He added that the website is also a CEO, Ali Al Obaidli, who inaugurated golden opportunity for all investors the website in the framework of the and businessmen who wish to know Ezdan’s keenness towards expanding the group’s real size and investments, its reach in the World Wide Web, said through real time financial statements a press statement. and performance in Qatar Exchange, The inauguration ceremony consisted which will help investors decide acqui- of a brief overview of the website, its sition of shares, or pursuit of cooperation contents and role as a source of informa- or partnerships. tion about everything related to Ezdan Nasser Mohammed Al Abdulla, Holding, aimed at all investors and busi- Deputy Group CEO, delivered a speech nessmen who wish to take a close glance during the celebration event, in which at the Group’s activities, as well as the he expressed his gratitude to all those in general public and the Qatari society. charge of the preparation of the website, The launch event included a graphically pointing out that technology and con- pleasing video that showed the phases nectivity have become vital parts in the the website went through from concept continuity and development of any busi- to actualisation. ness, stressing that the official website Al Obaidli said: “The official website is a window for the whole world to know of the group is not the first step in this and learn about Ezdan Holding Group. regard, but preceded by several steps, Ezdan Holding is also preparing to including the previous launch of mul- implement an extensive media campaign tiple accounts on social media with the in conjunction with the launch of the primary objective of communicating with website. THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2014 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Massive demand for WEF meeting in China Sharjah’s debut sukuk $750m issue draws orders worth more than 10 times

DUBAI: The emirate of Sharjah VTB Capital in London. About line with the 2023 bonds of one attracted massive demand at its $7.85bn of orders poured in for of Abu Dhabi’s top state-owned first international debt sale yes- the sukuk ijara from 250 inves- firms, Abu Dhabi National Energy terday, drawing investor orders tors, as pricing was tightened to Co (TAQA), which are also rated worth more than ten times the 110 basis points over midswaps. A3. Those bonds were trading at $750m issue. The issue priced at a profit rate a Z-spread of 109 bps yesterday. The strong interest in the of 3.764 percent. Demand for the Half of the Sharjah issue was issue of ten-year Islamic bonds Sharjah sukuk was so heavy that allocated to investors from the reflected both investors’ hunger it priced inside the Dubai govern- Middle East, while British-based for new Gulf issuers, and the view ment’s $750m, January 2023 sukuk, investors took 20 percent, the rest that oil-rich Abu Dhabi, the big- which was trading at a Z-spread of of Europe 11 percent and Asia 14 gest of the seven members of the 139 bps yesterday — despite very percent, the emirate’s government United Arab Emirates, will sup- bullish market sentiment towards said. “The issuance will provide a port the others if needed. Dubai because of its economic boom. benchmark for any transactions “The demand is a reflection of The fact that Dubai does not undertaken by Sharjah entities in the likely scarcity value of the have a credit rating limits inter- both the wider public sector and deal, and the strong proven eco- est in its bonds among some inves- the private sector,” the Sharjah nomic and political backstop pro- tors. But the Sharjah bond, rated Finance Department said. “It vided by Abu Dhabi/UAE federal A3 by Moody’s Investors Service, will also enhance the efforts of authorities for the various emir- also compared well with Abu Dhabi the UAE authorities to develop Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (left) and Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World ates,” said Raza Agha, emerging bonds. the local financial markets.” Economic Forum (WEF) attend the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting of the New Champions in market sovereign debt analyst at The Sharjah issue priced in REUTERS Tianjin yesterday. China’s economy can avoid a sharp drop in growth, Premier Li said as he promised to accelerate China’s switch to an economic model driven by science and innovation. Taiwan, China Venezuela in dilemma over hiking cheap petrol prices reopen free CARACAS: Venezuela generous welfare programmes to revolution.” like buses and food. “We deserve Ramirez, from his twin posts as President Nicolas Maduro is fund, the socialist government The 1989 fuel price increase subsidised fuel,” said Antonio oil minister and boss of state oil mulling a politically risky move has for months been preparing sparked massive riots that Lugo, a 63 year-old lawyer. “I company PDVSA, diminishing trade talks to raise highly subsidised gaso- Venezuelans for a hike of the claimed hundreds of lives, trau- think it’s incredible that in an market expectations of a hike, line prices in Venezuela for the almost laughably low prices at matised Venezuelans and rocked oil-producing country they want even though Maduro has not for- first time in 17 years, but may the pump. the presidency of Carlos Andres to increase fuel prices on us.” mally taken it off the table. amid protest be put off for now by fears of a Fuel prices, though, are a hot- Perez. The so-called “Caracazo,” Maduro, whose popularity A price increase would pile social backlash. button issue in the country with roughly translated as the “Caracas has slipped to below 40 percent further pressure on Venezuelans, TAIPEI: Taiwan and China With 95 octane gas on sale the world’s biggest oil reserves, disaster,” still haunts Venezuela, according to some local poll- already struggling with annual resumed talks yesterday at an for less than two US cents a as many Venezuelans deem cheap and there has only been one other sters, appears skittish about inflation over 60 percent and undisclosed location on a goods litre most motorists can fill up fuel a birthright, and Maduro gasoline price adjustment since, in taking the plunge, out of worry shortages of goods ranging from free trade agreement, spark- for under $1 — less than a small seems to be heeding the public’s 1997, without incident. it could revive the three-month corn flour to medicines. ing a protest against secrecy bottle of drinking water. Pump concerns and potential anger. About 55 percent of Venezuelans protests that rocked Venezuela “Gas does need to be increased,” by demonstrators suspicious of attendants often end up with a “Be careful. I’m warning are against increasing gas prices at the start of the year. “I want said Roberto Enriquez, head of closer ties with Beijing. bigger tip than the cost of the fuel. the government,” said Ismael again, according to local pollster to tell Venezuelans who may be opposition party Copei. “But a gas Economic Affairs Minister Subsidising the world’s cheap- Hernandez, spokesman of a gov- Hinterlaces. An increase would worried: there’s no rush,” he said increase, given Venezuela’s cur- Woody Duh told reporters before est gasoline costs the South ernment-affiliated leftist group hit the poor, the government’s last month. “The homeland has rent economic contraction, will the talks opened in the afternoon American Opec member about Marea Socialista. “Remember traditional base of support, espe- resources for its development.” have a devastating effect on the that Taiwan would focus on flat $12.5bn a year, the government that in 1989 the increase in cially hard, given the inevitable Then last week, he pushed out economy, and an explosive one on panels, petrochemicals, machine says. With its finances reeling and gas price was the trigger for a inflationary impact on daily costs the plan’s main proponent, Rafael inflation.” REUTERS tools and automobiles where its industries are competitive. But his ministry has declined to say where the three-day talks are Russia, Iran plan new being held, prompting suspicions from the political opposition and activists opposed to the pact. “Why are the talks being held trade, investment deals when the Legislative Yuan (par- liament) is in recess? This is a TEHRAN: Russia and Iran, energy programme. Western pow- procedure... intended to skip par- both targeted by international ers suspect Tehran has sought to liamentary supervision,” activist sanctions squeezing their econ- develop nuclear weapons, a claim Chen Wei-ting told reporters as omies, set the stage yester- it strongly denies, and negotia- dozens of slogan-chanting dem- day for a strategic partnership tions are now underway to reach onstrators rallied at the ministry. aimed at vastly expanding trade a deal acceptable to both sides. The talks had been delayed and investment. Russia, meanwhile, has recently about five months following a The two countries signed a been slapped with EU and US series of major protests led by number of protocols intended to sanctions over its perceived sup- Chen and other student lead- increase bilateral trade tenfold in port for separatists in Ukraine. ers against parliament’s earlier the next two years from the cur- Consequently, both countries approval of a services trade agree- rent figure of $1.5bn. At the same are looking for new economic ment with the mainland. That time, Russian Energy Minister partnerships. One example is pact provoked an unprecedented Alexander Novak said the two food. “Before the sanctions, we occupation of Taiwan’s parlia- countries would also pursue imported certain products from ment and mass street protests in investment projects worth €70bn. the European Union, and now March and April. Iranian Oil Minister Bijan we can import them from Iran,” President Ma Ying-jeou ear- Zanganeh, who had welcomed Novak said. lier repeated his warning against on Tuesday a sizeable Russian Under one deal, Iran will buy delays in the two pacts, saying delegation, said “there is no 10 million tonnes of wheat, while Taiwanese industries could be at a restriction on developing trade exporting dairy products, fruit disadvantage against their South relations” between the two sides. and vegetables to Russia. Tehran Korean counterparts once Seoul Iran has long been under an also aims to triple from $600m its and Beijing finalise a free trade array of EU, US and UN sanc- sales to Russia of chicken, meat agreement. AFP tions over its disputed nuclear and eggs, as well as shrimp. AFP

Santander’s patriarch Botin dies

Flags fly at half-mast near the entrance of the Santander’s offices in Boadilla del Monte outside Madrid yesterday. Emilio Botin, one of Spain’s most powerful men who transformed Santander from a small domestic lender into the eurozone’s biggest bank, has died of a heart attack, aged 79. The bank quickly appointed Ana Botin as its new head. THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2014 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

UK electricity crisis India insists on Juncker offers food subsidy deal before Britain banking WTO pact

NEW DELHI: India insisted yesterday it would not endorse olive branch a landmark global trade pact unless it is allowed to subsidise food for its vast poor population. New Delhi in July torpedoed Hill named EU financial commissioner the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) to reduce trade barriers, LONDON: New European eurozone, Britain’s biggest export demanding quicker progress on Commission President Jean- market, stutters. exempting its food stockpiles from Claude Juncker handed Britain Simon Lewis, chief executive possible punitive action by the supervision of EU financial of the Association for Financial World Trade Organisation. services yesterday, offering an Markets in Europe, a banking “We think (the stockpil- olive branch to a country that is lobby, said Hill’s appointment ing issue) is important for weighing its future in the bloc. recognises the importance of India,” Commerce Minister Juncker, whose appointment Europe’s capital markets at a cru- Nirmala Sitharaman told a news to head the European Union’s cial moment, as an unprecedented conference. executive was strongly opposed array of new regulatory measures “We shall not wait for an inter- by British Prime Minister David reach the implementation phase. minable period to get an agree- Cameron, said Jonathan Hill will Hill, a public relations con- ment (on the matter).” become the European Union’s sultant and former chief of staff At the same time, Sitharaman first dedicated financial services to former UK prime minister A farmer works in a field surrounded by electricity pylons in Ratcliffe-on-Soar, in central England, yesterday. said India supported in principle commissioner, giving him huge John Major, will oversee one of Britain risks an electricity crisis this winter which has forced the grid operator to take precautionary measures the trade accord, which experts influence over the City of London Juncker’s core projects: to create and will mean greater reliance on imports from Europe. say would inject $1 trillion into and rivals Paris and Frankfurt. a capital markets union that will international commerce. Cameron’s spokesman said the expand markets such as asset- “The nation’s intent and inter- appointment of Hill, who was backed securities to fund eco- est being very pro-trade facilita- leader of Britain’s upper house of nomic growth as banks regroup tion, what can be the reservation parliament, the House of Lords, after the financial crisis. Qatari bourse loses 19.15 points we have regarding signing the will ensure that the voice of EU His remit will help ease grow- WTO TFA?” Sitharaman asked. members from outside the euro- ing concerns in the City that the “Yes, we want to go ahead with zone will be fully represented in euro zone countries will call the DOHA: Qatar Exchange index The Dubai index fell 3.4 per- rates better than most emerging the agreement.” the bloc’s wider single market. shots from November under new closed slightly lower at 14,027.46 cent after dropping as much as economies because of their big Lately, India has come under “Financial services is a very EU voting rules which will give points, down 19.15 points, or 0.14 4.4 percent at one stage. Emaar current account and state budget pressure from fellow Asian significant sector here in the the currency union a ready-made percent, when trading closed itself lost 2.7 percent. In one of surpluses. nations, such as China, Japan and UK so we welcome that and look qualified majority to push through yesterday. the largest equity sales in the Nevertheless, Dubai’s red- South Korea, to allow the TFA forward to working with Lord pan-EU laws. The trading value was down Middle East since 2008, the com- hot real estate market could be to go through. The Association Hill and the entire Commission- In addition, the bulk of law- to QR734.342m from Tuesday’s pany plans to float its unit Emaar slowed, and its stock market is of Southeast Asian Nations designate,” the spokesman said. makers in the new European QR797.309m while the number of Malls Group this month and sub- dominated by property-related (ASEAN) voiced concern last London is the 28-country bloc’s Parliament’s two main parties, the transactions was down to 7,460 scriptions for the shares will open stocks. month over delay in the TFA’s biggest financial centre. Britain, centre right EPP — from which from 7,824. on September 14. Abu Dhabi’s index dipped along implementation. one of the most Eurosceptic coun- Britain’s Conservatives exited The trading volume dropped to “People are trying to take profits with Dubai and fell one percent. On Tuesday Prime Minister tries in the bloc, has become more — and the socialists, are drawn 15,680,686 from the previous day’s in order to take part in the IPO,” Developer Aldar Properties was Narendra Modi declared New antagonistic towards Brussels as mainly from euro zone countries 18,429,905 shares. said Marwan Shurrab, fund man- hit hardest among blue chips, Delhi does not oppose “rule- supervision of banks and markets like Germany, Italy and Spain. Real estate (0.88 percent), ager and head of trading at Vision dropping 4.4 percent. based” trade but added that shifts increasingly to the EU level. Also from November, the transport (0.63 percent), indus- Investments in Dubai. “Any selling Saudi Arabia’s property firms the poor’s interests could not be This loss of national power European Central Bank becomes tries (0.15 percent) and consumer pressure you see on the market is were also weak. Developers Dar sacrificed. has fueled a surge in support the direct supervisor for the euro- goods and services (0.14 percent) going to be related to that.” Al Arkan and Jabal Omar, down The Asian Development Bank for British anti-EU party UKIP, zone’s biggest banks which rep- sectors gained yesterday. Emaar, which plans to sell a 15 2.3 and 1.0 percent respectively, recently calculated that 47.7 per- prompting Cameron to promise resent the bulk of banking assets Gulf International Services percent stake in its subsidiary, were among the main drags on cent of India’s 1.25-billion popula- a referendum on membership of in the EU, giving it enormous (GIS) pulled back 1.0 percent has indicated it wants to raise at the bourse’s main index, which tion lived below a poverty line of the EU in 2017 if he is still prime clout in financial policy and rule after jumping 4.7 percent in the least Dh5.3bn ($1.4bn) from the slipped 0.2 percent. $1.51 a day in 2010. minister after national polls next making. previous session when it signed a offer. It has also said it aims to Egypt’s bourse edged down 0.1 Stockpiling and subsidies for year. While the EU has approved $1.4 billion contract with Qatar sell about 30 percent of the offer percent as large property developer the poor are considered trade- “It’s a very good appointment a welter of new regulation since Petroleum. to retail investors. SODIC dropped 5.1 percent, after distorting under existing WTO for the City,” Chris Cummings, the 2007-09 financial crisis forced Shares of 42 from the 43 listed Another negative factor for saying it had received regulatory rules. chief executive of TheCityUK, European taxpayers to prop up companies saw trading yesterday. equity markets globally on approval for a one billion Egyptian All 160 WTO members includ- which promotes Britain as a banks, many of the rules have yet From these, 20 made good gains, Wednesday was indications that pound ($140m) rights issue. ing India agreed to implement the financial centre. to be fully implemented. 17 went down and five remained the US Federal Reserve could Cairo-based Naeem Brokerage TFA—which would mark the first “In the context of British mem- Key pieces of controversial unchanged. raise interest rates earlier than downgraded the stock to “hold” big global trade liberalisation deal bership of the EU, it demon- legislation still remain to be Meanwhile, Dubai’s bourse expected. from “buy” afterwards, saying in two decades—at a 2013 meeting strates that other member states approved at a time when the City fell sharply yesterday as inves- Interest rates in the United that while the capital boost was in Bali. India’s move to hold up are keen to listen to the reform worries that Britain’s influence tors accumulated cash for the Arab Emirates are expected to a positive factor, it had already the deal in July surprised fellow perspective Britain has put for- in Brussels has weakened after upcoming initial public offer of track US rates closely because of been priced in. Shares in SODIC WTO members. ward,” Cummings said. Cameron’s failed attempt to stop Emaar Properties’ malls unit, the dirham’s peg to the dollar. The have more than doubled in price The agreement was due to take Cameron has urged the EU to Luxembourger Juncker. while most other markets in the UAE and other Gulf economies this year. effect in mid-2015. push harder for growth as the AFP region slipped. are likely to withstand higher AGENCIES AFP Turkish growth Libya oil production up to 1.5mbpd slows to 2.1pc in TRIPOLI: Libya said yesterday it expects oil campaign for restored autonomy for the eastern second quarter production to reach 1.5 million barrels per day Cyrenaica region slashed output from 1.5 million by year-end, with output quadrupled since the bpd to just 200,000. beginning of the summer despite ongoing chaos Under a deal with the government, the rebels on rate rise in the country. returned control of two terminals in April and “We will continue advancing,” National Oil Co the remaining two in July. ISTANBUL: The Turkish spokesman Mohamed Al Hrari said. Since then, output and exports have soared, economy slowed sharply to 2.1 He said production had reached 810,000 barrels despite unrest rocking a country that never percent growth in the second per day by yesterday, compared with 550,000 at regained stability following the 2011 ouster of quarter, partly because of rate the end of August and 200,000 at the beginning long-time dictator Moamer Kadhafi. rises to defend the lira, official of the summer. The internationally recognised government, data showed yesterday. The next target is one million barrels per day now operating from the eastern city of Tobruk, The figure was less than half by the end of September. has lost control of the capital Tripoli and sec- growth of 4.7 percent in the first Libya’s economy took a heavy hit after rebels ond city Benghazi to militias. Among the latter quarter of the year. blockaded export terminals in July 2013, forcing are Islamists who reject the outcome of elections “Gross domestic product a reduction in output and slashing all-important they lost in June and who have formed a rival increased by 2.1 percent in the oil revenues. government. second quarter of 2014 and The seizure of four terminals in pursuit of a AFP reached 30.8m lira,” Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat) said on its website. Warning on Canada housing boom The GDP growth is below the analysts’ estimates of 2.8 percent. On a quarterly basis, output fell 0.5 percent in the first three months of the year over the pre- vious quarter, TurkStat figures showed. In the afternoon trading on Wednesday, the lira weakened and was down 0.6 percent against the dollar at 2.2065. The stock exchange was down 0.85 percent at 79,400.13. “Economic growth has lost momentum in the second quar- ter of 2014 due to monetary tightening, the delayed effects of macroprudential measures and geopolitical tensions,” Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said in a statement on Wednesday. It would be hard for the gov- ernment to reach its original target of four-percent growth for the whole of this year due to an increase in downwards risks, he added. A sold sign is displayed in front of a house in Toronto. Experts ranging from Fitch Ratings and Morningstar Analysts have already revised to the International Monetary Fund and economist Paul Krugman have warned about the risks of the their forecasts downward. housing boom in Canada. AFP THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2014 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

Fixing Argentina’s financial Many Americans missed crisis by restructuring debt BY BARRY EICHENGREEN $5.4bn by not refinancing

ometimes the worst intentions yield the best results. So it is, unexpectedly, with Argentine debt. BY CASS R SUNSTEIN never comes. Some focus on the upfront tended to be the ones with relatively less The story begins with Argentina’s financial crisis in expense of refinancing, and the inconven- wealth and less education. In other words, S2001-2002. There is no question that the crisis left the uppose you learned that during ience of the process, discounting the long- the people most in need of saving money country unable to service its debts. But Argentina made no friends the recent recession the national term economic gains. (This is known as were the least likely to do so. It follows that by waiting four years to negotiate with its creditors and then government adopted a policy that “present bias.”) Anecdotal evidence supports poor refinancing decisions exacerbate eco- offering settlement terms that were stingy by the standards of cost American homeowners $5.4bn. this speculation, but there has been a lack nomic inequality. previous debt restructurings. Or that the nation’s banks adopted of systemic research. Keys and his colleagues went a step fur- Still, the terms were acceptable to the vast majority of the Sa policy that had exactly the same effect. Until now. Economists Benjamin Keys ther. Working with a nonprofit corporation, country’s creditors, who exchanged their old claims for new ones You’d probably be outraged. Fortunately, and Devin Pope of the University of Chicago, they wrote letters to mortgage holders in worth 30 cents on the dollar. All, that is, except for a few holdouts that didn’t quite happen, but something along with Jaren Pope of Brigham Young lower-income communities offering to refi- who bought up the remaining bonds on the cheap and went to similar did. Whether or not it’s outrageous, University, studied a nationally representa- nance their loans at a lower rate. These court, specifically to the US district court of the southern district we should do something about it. tive sample of about 1 million residential preapproved offers promised potentially of New York, asking to be paid in full. For many people, buying a home is the mortgages that were active in December substantial savings, and yet 84 percent of This quixotic strategy met with unexpected success when most important financial decision they 2010. Keys and his colleagues were able to recipients didn’t respond. Federal Judge Thomas Griesa ruled in the holdouts’ favour. Griesa ever make. Interest rates rise and fall, and obtain a lot of information about these loans, Obviously, we can’t blame banks for peo- idiosyncratically reinterpreted the pari passu, or equal treatment, when they fall, many homeowners have an including the interest rate, the payment ple’s poor decisions. Yet there are many clause in the debt contracts to mean that “vulture” funds refusing opportunity to refinance and to save a lot history, any second liens and the existing ways that banks could help to promote refi- to participate in the earlier debt exchange should receive not 30 of money. From 2010 to 2012, rates dropped balance. As a result, they could make rea- nancing — for instance by making it easier but 100 cents on the dollar. significantly. In late 2012, they reached an sonable judgments about which homeowners or even automatic, or by providing clear, Griesa’s ruling threatened to hold the Bank of New York Mellon, all-time low, falling well below 4 percent. were unable to refinance and which would simple, accessible information. And with the Argentine government’s agent, in contempt if it paid other Someone whose original loan came with benefit from doing so. appropriate incentives, government policy bondholders without also paying the vultures. Effectively barred a rate of 6.5 percent could, by refinancing, Of the many who stood to save tens of could encourage banks to do these things. from servicing its debt on the renegotiated terms, Argentina had save more than $100,000 over the life of the thousands of dollars by refinancing, 20 per- If one of our goals is to help struggling little choice but to default again. loan. cent sat on their hands. Nationwide, the homeowners, we could do a great deal, cer- This was not an episode from which anyone emerged smelling The standard economic assumption is researchers concluded from these findings, tainly in the future but even now, by encour- like a rose. Argentina’s hardball tactics and erratic policies did that homeowners consider such benefits and Americans mortgage-holders who neglected aging and simplifying refinancing. A number not endear it to investors. The vultures showed no scruples in make rational decisions about whether and to refinance passed up a total of $5.4bn in of homeowners continue to have mortgages profiting at the expense of Argentine taxpayers. They are now when to refinance. But behavioural econo- savings — and that is a conservative esti- with rates significantly above those now deploying the same strategy against the Democratic Republic of mists suspect this isn’t what really happens mate. What happened to that 20 percent available (which recently dropped to a low the Congo, one of the world’s poorest countries. — that lots of people fail to refinance even by late December 2012, when interest rates for the year). And the new research raises Griesa, for his part, showed no compunction about upending a when they stand to save many thousands bottomed out? Two in five of them had still an intriguing question: In what other con- financial order in which market-based exchanges of old bonds for of dollars. neglected to refinance, even though their texts are low take-up rates leading people new ones are used to restructure the debts of countries unable Some procrastinate, thinking that they potential savings grew. to leave a lot of money on the table? to pay. By making it impossible for sovereigns to restructure, he will refinance tomorrow — and tomorrow The homeowners who failed to refinance WP-BLOOMBERG effectively rendered them unable to borrow in the US. Ignoring precedent and all economic common sense, he threw international financial markets into turmoil. This prompted various suggestions for reforming sovereign-debt markets. Resuscitating ideas advanced in the wake of Argentina’s earlier default, some experts proposed creating an international bankruptcy court in the IMF. Others suggested that Argentina might issue bonds under European – or even domestic – law. But experience has shown that bondholders are not inclined to subordinate their claims to some untested international bank- ruptcy court. The only thing they would like less are obligations whose terms were enforced by courts as easy to manipulate as Argentina’s. As for borrowing in European currencies, Griesa was quick to declare that his rulings would cover such bonds as well. Fortunately, there is a simple solution to these problems. Investors could agree to insert language into bond contracts that leaves no room for vulture funds. First, they could clarify the pari passu clause, specifying that it guaranteed comparable treatment for existing bondholders, not for existing bondholders and earlier bondholders whose claims were already extinguished. Second, issuers could add “aggregation clauses” specifying that an agreement supported by a qualified majority of a country’s bondholders, say, two-thirds, would bind one and all. But this still allowed the vultures to block the proc- ess by buying up a third of a particular bond issue. By contrast, purchasing a third of a country’s entire debt stock, as required for a blocking position when all bondholders vote together, is an altogether more costly proposition. In 2003, in an article in the American Economic Review, Ashoka Mody and I made the case for these provisions. They are basically what the International Capital Market Association of leading investors and issuers has now agreed to implement, subject to some additional details that need not be examined here. Why didn’t it happen sooner? The answer is that getting inves- tors to agree is like herding cats. In this case, it required strong behind-the-scenes leadership from the US Treasury. The agreement is not perfect, and problems remain. Because new contractual provisions are not easily retrofitted into old bonds, it will take years before the clauses are included in the entire stock of debt. Establishing an international bankruptcy court would be a far more efficient solution, but that doesn’t make it feasible. Investors were wise to acknowledge that, in international capital markets, the perfect is the enemy of the good. THE GUARDIAN Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

Efficient marketing strategies for Small-Medium enterprises

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BARCELONA: Holders the Ferry issued an apology on United States ran riot in a Tuesday and said he was only 119-76 win over Slovenia while reading comments from others Lithuania beat Turkey 73-61 evaluating Deng as a potential on Tuesday to set up a mouth- free agent signing by the Hawks watering basketball World Cup when he made his racially charged semi-final. remarks during a conference call. Hosts Spain were scheduled “Concerning my free agency, to take on European champi- the focus should purely have been ons France and Brazil would on my professionalism and my clash with dark horses Serbia in ability as an athlete,” Deng said the other two quarter-finals in in a statement released on Madrid yesterday. Tuesday. The Slovenians held their own “Every person should have the valiantly in the opening half right to be treated with respect against the Americans and were and evaluated as an individual only 49-42 down at the interval as rather than be reduced to a forward Domen Lorbek produced stereotype. a superb performance. “I am saddened and disap- The champions at times looked pointed that this way of thinking pedestrian in the first half as their still exists today. I am even more captain James Harden missed disturbed that it was shared so his first seven shots, with fellow freely in a business setting.” guard Klay Thompson and ath- Ferry said in June that Deng letic centre Anthony Davis pulling “has a little African in him. Not the strings to keep them in the in a bad way, but he’s like a guy driving seat. who would have a nice store out But the second period produced front but sell you counterfeit stuff one-way traffic as the US hit top out of the back.” gear with six players finishing in According to a June letter by double scoring digits. Thompson Hawks co-owner Michael Gearon had a game-high 20 points while obtained by Atlanta television Harden and Kenneth Faried station WSB, Ferry also described added 14 each. Deng as a “two-faced liar and Having arrived in Spain with cheat.” a squad missing top NBA talent Deng, born in what is now who turned down invitations to South Sudan, played for Britain in play, long-serving US coach Mike the 2012 London Olympics and is Krzyzewski was pleased with the known for his off-season humani- effort. tarian work. “We played hard but we just Emir Preldzic (left) of Turkey in action against Jonas Maciulis of Lithuania during their FIBA Basketball World Cup quarter-final match at the Palau “He has a little African in couldn’t finish in the first half and Sant Jordi Sports Pavilion in Barcelona on Tuesday. RIGHT: Derrick Rose (right) of the USA tries to shoot for the basket as Domen Lorbek of Slovenia him. These words were recently then the floodgates opened after attempts to block him during their quarter-final match at Sant Jordi Palace in Barcelona on Tuesday. used to describe me,” Deng said. that,” he told a news conference. “It would ordinarily make any “We are beatable there is no are not unbeatable and I think the closing stages. Shooting guard investigation into Australia’s suggestion that the Australian African parent proud to hear doubt about that and that is why that the semi-final will be very Renaldas Seibutis led Lithuania 91-83 defeat to Angola in Spain Boomers were a party to con- their child recognized for their I am pleased how we handled it. different.” with 19 points, Martynas Pocius over suspicions they wanted to triving the result of the 2014 heritage. I’m proud to say I actu- Normally you get frustrated but Former European champions added 13 and towering centre lose to avoid playing the United FIBA World Cup game between ally have a lot of African in me, we kept our composure and were Lithuania, who finished third Jonas Valanciunas amassed 12 to States. Australia and Angola. not just ‘a little.’ mature. The team is not a power- in the 2010 World Cup, needed go with 13 commanding rebounds. “It is widely suspected that “The Australian Boomers went “For my entire life, my iden- house and we know from previous a strong final quarter to see off Meanwhile, Australian bas- Australia lost that game in order into the game against Angola to tity has been a source of pride and experience that it is not easy with Turkey who made a brighter start ketball authorities have angrily to avoid having to face the reign- win — plain and simple. strength. Among my family and a young team.” and took a 14-6 lead. denied claims the national team ing world champions USA until “Claims to the contrary are friends, in my country of South Slovenia coach Jure Zdovc said: Lethal long-range shooting deliberately lost a group match at the semi-finals,” FIBA said, in a widely speculative, insulting to Sudan and across the broader “We tried and for the first 23 hauled the Lithuanians back into the World Cup, calling the allega- statement which was slammed by the Australian sporting culture continent of Africa, I can think minutes or so we were close but the game as they nailed 10 of 19 tions “insulting” and “downright Basketball Australia. and to our playing group who gave of no greater privilege than to do the power that they have was too three-pointers to turn a 40-36 def- wrong”. The Australian body said their very best throughout this what I love for a living while also much for us. icit early in the second half into Basketball’s ruling body late on Tuesday: “Basketball tournament. They’re downright representing my heritage on the “They are a good team but they an unassailable 12-point lead in FIBA on Monday launched an Australia categorically rejects any wrong.” AGENCIES highest stage,” he added. AFP Tigers beat Argentina dump wingers in Royals 4-2

DETROIT: Max Scherzer bid to defeat Australia escaped a bases-loaded jam in the fifth, Rajai Davis and J.D. MELBOURNE: Argentina Martinez homered, and the coach Daniel Hourcade has Detroit Tigers beat Kansas City switched his wingers and 4-2 on Tuesday night to pull replaced suspended lock within percentage points of the Tomas Lavanini with Matias Royals atop the AL Central. Alemanno for the Rugby Scherzer (16-5) allowed a run Championship match against and seven hits in 6 2-3 innings. Australia on the Gold Coast Kansas City was down 3-1 in the on Saturday. fifth when Alex Gordon’s deep fly Juan Imhoff has been pro- to right went just foul with two moted to right wing from on. Gordon walked to load the the bench to replace Horacio bases with one out, but Salvador Agulla with Manuel Montero Perez lined out and Eric Hosmer coming in for Lucas Gonzalez struck out. Amorosino on the left in the Joe Nathan earned his 30th team named yesterday. save in 36 chances, allowing Alemanno, named on the Juan Imhoff and Matias Alemanno two infield singles to start the bench for Argentina’s 28-9 loss ninth before ending it with two to New Zealand last week, will revamp of the team now leaves The Pumas are happier in strikeouts sandwiched around a start against the Wallabies only four survivors from the dry conditions and Hernandez picked-off runner. after Lavanini was banned for side that finished third at the said he hoped the weather Kansas City’s Jason Vargas (11- a week for charging into a ruck 2007 World Cup, including would be good on Saturday. 8) allowed four runs and six hits and making contact with All Hernandez. “The coaching staff give us in 5 1-3 innings. He struck out six Blacks captain Richie McCaw. Hernandez said Australia the confidence to go and play and walked three. AGENCIES Hourcade has shaken up his were just as tough as New and take the game to our oppo- bench, bringing front rower Zealand and South Africa, even nents. Let’s hope the climate Bruno Postiglioni, flanker if they are the only one of the on Saturday allows us to show Baseball Results Benjamin Macome and centre three big southern hemisphere our game and we hope to have Minnesota 4 Cleveland 3 Jeronimo De la Fuente into the nations Argentina have beaten a better match than against the Tampa Bay 4 NY Yankees 3 matchday 23 as Argentina bid — four times between 1979 All Blacks.” REUTERS to break their winless record in and 1997. The head-to-head Washington 6 Atlanta 4 their third season of the four- record includes 16 wins for the Team: 15-Joaquin Tuculet, 14-Juan Philadelphia 4 Pittsburgh 3 nation southern hemisphere Wallabies and a draw. Imhoff, 13-Marcelo Bosch, 12-Juan Martin Toronto 9 Chicago Cubs 2 tournament. “They’ve just beaten South Hernandez, 11-Manuel Montero, 10-Nicolas Detroit 4 Kansas City 2 Lavanini will be missed, cen- Africa when non-one thought Sanchez, 9-Martin Landajo, 8-Leonardo Senatore, 7-Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe Baltimore 4 Boston 1 tre Juan Martin Hernandez they would and that means we told reporters. must go into the match as we 6-Juan Manuel Leguizamon, 5-Matias Cincinnati 9 St Louis 5 “He’s a great player, a lock did against the other rivals,” Alemanno, 4-Mariano Galarza, 3-Ramiro NY Mets 2 Colorado 0 who is like a tractor on the Hernandez said. They are a Herrera, 2-Agustin Creevy (captain), LA Angels 9 Texas 3 field, going forward all the time, very technical team, they have 1-Marcos Ayerza Oakland 11 Chicago White Sox 2 he’s very aggressive, a big loss very good running lines and Replacements: 16-Matias Cortese, 17-Bruno Postiglioni, 18-Nahuel Tetaz Miami 6 Milwaukee 3 to the team,” he said of the two- move the ball well. If you let metre 21-year-old. them gain in confidence they Chaparro, 19-Benjamin Macome, Houston 2 Seattle 1 Lavanini was preferred in can hurt you so we mustn’t let 20-Rodrigo Baez, 21- Tomas Cubelli, San Diego 6 LA Dodgers 3 the squad to Patricio Albacete, them have the ball, not let them 22-Jeronimo De la Fuente, 23-Lucas San Francisco 5 Arizona 1 dropped by Hourcade whose get into the match.” Gonzalez Amorosino THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2014 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Cilic credits relaxed Top seed Lisicki in a approach for US win

NEW YORK: Winning the US Open was an out-of-this-world thrill for Marin Cilic (pic- tured), who gives a lot of credit hurry in Hong Kong to Croatian tennis pioneer and coach Goran Ivanisevic for guid- ing him to grand slam glory. German seals second-round victory in just 40 minutes “It’s life changing, completely like I was on a different planet so far,” Cilic told a small group HONG KONG: Top seed Sabine of reporters after a long night of Lisicki kept her cool on a sear- celebration following his Monday ing night yesterday to power triumph. “It just feels incredible. past Grace Min 6-1, 6-1 and into “Croatia was crazy time yes- the quarter-finals of the Hong terday, it was a huge celebration. Kong Open. Also my hometown Zagreb, the Lisicki had spent almost two- whole country was watching,” and-a-half sapping hours on court he added, noting he had received Muster at one event close to my the previous night in getting past some 250 messages on his phone hometown when I was eight or Romania’s Monica Niculescu in from back home and had not even nine,” said the Bosnian-born Cilic. three sets, but was in a big hurry yet checked Twitter or Facebook. “And then after when I was 14 24 hours later. The towering, 6-foot-6 (1.98m) in Zagreb in 2002 he was there The German sealed the second- Cilic, who routed Japan’s Kei recovering from his shoulder round victory over her American Nishikori in straight sets, said injury, shoulder surgery, so he opponent in just 40 minutes as he went from promising yet played with me several times. the mercury nudged 33 degrees frustrated tennis talent to grand “It was huge moment for me to celsius under the Victoria Park slam winner with the help of be with him, play with him and floodlights. his boyhood idol, the irreverent get some advice. He just pointed “Last night was a tough match,” Ivanisevic. me in the right direction and said Lisicki. “I eventually found Cilic said Ivanisevic, who rode helped me out a lot.” my rhythm and I was able to take a blistering serve to the 2001 An obviously talented player, that into today.” Wimbledon title, straightened out Cilic reached the semi-finals of The world number 31 will now his own booming service delivery the 2010 Australian Open but was have a day off before playing and his doubtful mindset by sim- not able to repeat that success China’s Zheng Sasai on Friday plifying things and stressing fun and grew frustrated and tinkered for a place in the last four after and enjoyment on the court. with his technique. Zheng ousted the number six seed Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia hits a return against Hong Kong’s Zhang Ling during their women’s second The Croat was asked if It was time for a coaching Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium in round singles match at the Hong Kong Open yesterday. Ivanisevic had any words of wis- change, and last September Cilic the biggest upset of the day. dom for him before his first grand found a perfect match in teaming Wickmayer is ranked 62, 40 World number 51 Hantuchova, about a metre long (with sweat) slam final. up with Ivanisevic. places above her Chinese oppo- who will now meet 20-year-old and I had to change. The change “’You’re gonna be shitting in “When I worked with Goran, nent, but she became the third of Belgian Alison Van Uytvanck in helped me.” Hong Kong your pants, I’m telling you that,’” he has perfect serve and he was eight seeded players to fall in the the second round on Thursday, On the other side of the globe, Cilic chuckled in retelling. “’Just doing it so simple. It took us about inaugural $250,000 WTA event. was satisfied with her opening US top seed Venus Williams Open Results try to enjoy it.’” 10 minutes to put it in the spot,” Former French Open cham- performance despite suffering in advanced to the second round of Unshaven and dressed in a he said. Results from the $250,000 pion Italy’s Francesca Schiavone the blazing afternoon sunshine the WTA tournament at Quebec black shirt and blue jeans, the Cilic remembers watching WTA Hong Kong Open on reached the quarter-finals when in the second set and having to City on Tuesday with a 7-5, 6-3 Wednesday (x denotes seed) 25-year-old Cilic looked no more Ivanisevic’s Wimbledon win on her veteran opponent, 44-year-old leave court to change her sweat- triumph over Canada’s Francoise scruffy than usual after a night TV as a 12 year old. Kimiko Date-Krumm of Japan, soaked kit. Abanda. First Round: Daniela Hantuchova (SVK x2) bt out with family, friends and sup- “He was a hero for all Croatia was forced to retire at 4-0 down “It was definitely the hottest The 19th-ranked American, Zhang Ling (HKG) 6-1, 6-4. port team to a Croatian restau- at that time, especially because in the second set with a shoulder conditions I have played in and I coming off a third-round exit at rant and a nightclub until 5am. he had lost three times (at Second Round: injury. Schiavone had taken the suppose this was the reason why the US Open, connected on only Zheng Sasai (CHN) bt After a spate of early morning Wimbledon) and reached again Yanina Wickmayer (BEL x6) 6-4, 6-2; Jarmila first 6-3. my concentration slipped a little 59 percent of her first serves TV appearances, Cilic perked up the final,” he said. Gajdosova (AUS) bt Kiki Bertens (NED) 4-6, Earlier, second seed Daniela bit at the start of the second set,” but won three-quarters of those when asked about his history with Cilic said breaking through at 6-1, 6-4; Francesca Schiavone (ITA) bt Kimiko Hantuchova completed the first- Hantuchova said. points, including five aces, on the Ivanisevic. Flushing Meadows could provide Date-Krumm (JPN) 6-3, 4-0 ret; Sabine Lisicki round action by brushing aside “It was impossible to stay on way to dispatching her 17-year-old “The first time we met I was him with some critical confidence. (GER x1) bt Grace Min (USA) 6-1, 6-1. local wildcard Zhang Ling 6-1, 6-4. court. My dress was heavy and rival in 85 minutes. AGENCIES ball boy for him and Thomas REUTERS Despite turmoil, India aim for China set to crank up the record medal haul in Incheon gold medal machine again

NEW DELHI: India are seek- BEIJING: With huge resources, ing a record Asian Games medal a Soviet-style sports regime haul despite a chaotic build-up, geared to churning out cham- with their jumbo squad slashed pions and an insatiable desire at the last minute, their boxers to win gold, the question is not under a cloud and top athletes whether China will top the either injured or opting out. medal standings at the Incheon With just 10 days to go, the Asian Games but by how much. intended travelling party of 942 China has reigned supreme athletes and officials was cut by since finishing top of the table nearly a third in a cost-saving at the Asian Games it hosted in move which discarded 146 com- 1990 and sent records tumbling petitors seen as having little ever since. chance of a medal. Still basking in the runa- Separately India’s boxers, led way success of the 2008 Beijing by multiple world champion Olympics, China reaped a record Mary Kom, face the prospect 416 medals at the last Asian of not being able to fight under This picture taken on November 12, 2010 shows the delegation of Games at home in Guangzhou, The Chinese are hoping their swim king Sun Yang can turn over a new the national flag following a row India arriving during the opening ceremony of the 16th Asian Games in with its tally of 199 gold medals leaf and shake off his bling and bad boy image as he heads to South with the International Boxing Guangzhou. nearly three times the haul of Korea for this month’s Asian Games. Association. runners-up South Korea. Star boxer Vijender Singh India’s best Asian Games per- Council of Asia, the body behind Set to unleash a mammoth battle with Japan for supremacy two years, they need to practice,” is out injured, while Olympic formance was winning 65 med- the Asian Games. delegation of 899 members on in the Guangzhou pool fizzled out long-time coach Zhou Jihong told medal-winning wrestler Sushil als, including 14 golds, four years India may also suffer from Incheon, the Games’ largest, with the hosts trouncing their local media. Kumar and India’s number one ago in Guangzhou, when they the loss of cue sports, chess and China will look to eclipse that war-time foes. China’s badminton great Lin tennis player Somdev Devvarman were coming off hosting the roller sports, the source of eight of mark again while providing a That Games heralded the Dan, arguably the sport’s finest are both concentrating on other Commonwealth Games in Delhi. their medals in Guangzhou, which report card on their athletes’ arrival of distance swimming sen- player, is likely to battle for the competitions. Even this left them just sixth are no longer part of the Asiad progress halfway through the sation Sun Yang, who threatened men’s singles gold with Malaysia’s In a further blow to tennis on the medals table, far behind schedule. Olympic cycle. the 1,500 metres freestyle world Lee Chong Wei, the man he beat hopes, doubles specialists Leander China’s 199 golds and one place Five of India’s 14 gold medals in Courtesy demanded that the record then held by Australian for both the Beijing and London Paes, Rohan Bopanna and Sania behind Kazakhstan — not a large 2010 came from track and field, full roster of China’s champions Grant Hackett before breaking Olympic golds as well as last year’s Mirza were granted permission by return for a country of 1.2 billion. but they fared poorly at this year’s turned up to Guangzhou, but it in Shanghai a year later to world championship and the the All-India Tennis Association India will take part in 28 disci- Glasgow Commonwealth Games some of the national federations become world champion. Asian Games title at Guangzhou. yesterday to skip the Games. plines after others including bowl- where discus-thrower Vikas are not taking Incheon quite so The reigning Olympic 1,500m Though Chinese sports officials India will not even compete ing, karate, modern pentathlon, Gowda was their only winner. seriously. and 800m freestyle world cham- will watch their athletes throw in its strongest sport, cricket, rugby, soft tennis and triathlon India’s first and only Olympic Gymnastics officials have pion, Sun’s battle with 2008 their weight around the continent because the Indian board refuses were axed on Tuesday in the individual gold medallist, Abhinav already conceded they are send- Olympic 400m champion Park with pride, they will also be cast- to take part in multi-discipline sports ministry’s cull. Bindra, leads a strong shooting ing a ‘B’ team to South Korea, Tae-hwan of South Korea will be ing a beady eye over the country’s events. Their boxers will not know squad even though China and saving their best for the world a highlight of the Games, with the soccer, basketball and volleyball Organisational headaches are until a few days before the Games hosts South Korea are runaway championships in October, while pair expected to go head-to-head teams. not new to India, whose athletes open in Incheon whether they will favourites in most events on the the country’s top tennis players for the 200 and 400 titles. China has long lamented its marched under a neutral flag compete under the national flag — ranges. Li Na and Peng Shuai have opted Eighteen-year-old Ye Shiwen, failure to build powerful teams in at this year’s Winter Olympics if they are allowed in at all. At Guangzhou, India won out. who took the London pool by the ‘big ball’ sports, as it describes following the suspension of the The International Boxing just one gold medal in shooting Double Olympic taekwondo storm winning the women’s 400m them, and will hope for signs of Indian Olympic Association. Association, which suspended the through double-trap marksman champion Wu Jingyu is also a and 200m individual medley, is improvement. And despite the problems, Indian federation in 2012 due to Ronjan Sodhi. serious doubt to travel to Incheon, also a major drawcard. “We have to recognise that the India are bullish about their election malpractice, wants polls But the hockey team’s having checked into hospital China will send their peerless development of sport in our coun- prospects at the Asian Games, a to a provisional body to be held by Australian coach Terry Walsh, for an unspecified illness, she diving team loaded with a stable try is not balanced, the overall 36-sport spectacular in Incheon, September 11. encouraged by their second-place announced on her microblog. of Olympic gold medal-winners level of the three ‘big ball’ sports South Korea which will open on “If elections are not held on finish in Glasgow, is hoping to Despite the absences, China including Wu Minxia, Chen that the masses love, particularly September 19. that day or ratified by the world end the country’s Asian Games will have more than enough in Ruolin, He Zi and He Chong. soccer, are stagnant and even fall- “I am very optimistic we will body, our boxers will not be drought in a sport it once ruled. reserve to reap rivers of gold “Our key players need to accu- ing back,” state media quoted Liu get 70-75 medals, if not more,” allowed to participate under the The eight-time Olympic cham- from swimming, diving, table ten- mulate experience and maintain Peng, China’s top sports manda- declared Jiji Thomson, the direc- Indian flag,” said SAI’s Thomson. pions have won the Asiad title just nis, shooting and badminton, and their state through competition rin, as saying. “The masses are tor-general of the state-run India’s boxers may not be able twice, both times in Bangkok in will also expect medals from judo, ... and many of the players in this not satisfied that there is a sharp Sports Authority of India (SAI). to compete at all if they are not 1966 and 1998. In comparison, taekwondo and canoeing, among lineup will be our participants contrast with China’s outstand- “The squad has been picked keep- given permission to appear as arch-rivals Pakistan have eight others. in the Kazan world champion- ing results in (other) competitive ing medals in mind.” independents by the Olympic golds to their credit. AFP China’s highly anticipated ships and the Rio Olympics in sport.” REUTERS THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 F1: Montezemolo leaves top job at Ferrari

ROME: Ferrari, a byword for to tip his likely exit. The decision “Montezemolo’s business record flashy sports cars, hit rough not to appoint Montezemolo to is very good but in the case of ground yesterday with the the new board of the merged Fiat Ferrari, a leader must also be shock announcement that its Chrysler Automobiles also sug- judged on sporting results,” he president of 23 years, Luca gested the Italian businessman had said. Cordero di Montezemolo, has was on the way out. Concerns over Ferrari’s future been pushed out after a board- “Our desire to see Ferrari under the Italian aristocrat were room split. express its full potential on also raised in June after he said he Just days after saying he the track led to certain mutual may pull his team out of Formula wanted to stay, Montezemolo -- misunderstandings that were One because it “isn’t working”, who has been dogged by six years voiced publicly this weekend,” and suggested the firm may of Formula One racing failure Marchionne said in a statement switch to sports-car competition. -- announced he will be stepping yesterday. Scuderia Ferrari has long- down on October 13. “I want to personally thank standing disputes with The top job at the Italian Luca for everything he has done Formula One governing body Ferrari luxury sports car com- for Fiat, for Ferrari, and for the Federation International Sheikh Mohamed bin Faleh AI Thani (centre), Chairman of Qatar Racing & Equestrian Club (QREC) and Nasser pany will be taken over by the myself,” he said. d’Automobile (FIA), and AI Jaidah, CEO of Qatar Petroleum International exchange documents during a signing ceremony at QREC in head of parent group Fiat, Sergio Ferrari is a subsidiary of the Montezemolo expressed frus- Doha yesterday. Sami Jassim Al Boenain, QREC General Manager was also present. QREC announced Qatar Marchionne. Fiat Group, which Montezemolo, tration with recent F1 rules Petroleum International Ltd (QPI) as the exclusive sponsor of the world’s richest race for purebred Arabians, the A press conference held by aged 67, chaired from 2004 until changes, saying new environ- Qatar Arabian World Cup, which will be held at Longchamp, Paris on October 5. PICTURE BY: ABDUL BASIT Montezemolo and Marchionne 2010. mentally friendly policies were was announced for Wednesday His 23 years at the wheel of taking the excitement out of the afternoon. Ferrari saw the team’s drivers win sport. His suggestion that the Ferrari is the biggest and most the Formula One title six times, most iconic brand in motorsport glamourous name in Formula but the last title came in 2007 and could leave Formula One sent One racing, competing on the the team has struggled since then shockwaves through the sport. QPI to sponsor Qatar Grand Prix circuit with huge to compete on the track with the He was also said to have success since it started in 1950, likes of Red Bull and Mercedes. clashed with Marchionne over and the team’s logo of a black stal- On Saturday, Montezemolo sales strategies. lion against a red background is had publicly stated he wanted to While Montezemolo report- instantly recognised by motor- spend another three years in the edly hoped to keep the red and Arabian World Cup sport fans around the world. job. black brand exclusive by limiting But the brand’s poor perform- Marchionne was also quoted at sales to some 7,000 cars a year, ance over the past six years, the weekend saying no changes Marchionne has been pushing combined with recent clashes in in Ferrari’s management were for Ferrari to help Fiat Chrysler Race for purebred Arabians in Paris strategy between Montezemolo planned but adding, “no-one is move into the premium end of the and Fiat, had lead racing watchers indispensable”. car market. AFP

DOHA: Qatar Petroleum existence and we look forward The challenging race also repre- International Ltd (QPI) will to another exciting renewal this sents a key belief of QPI: perform- be the exclusive sponsor of the year”, he added. ance at the highest international world’s richest race for purebred Qatar Petroleum International standards. Arabians, the Qatar Arabian Ltd is a regular supporter of “As part of our global sponsor- World Cup, the Qatar Racing horseracing events at Al Rayyan ship portfolio, the Qatar Arabian & Equestrian Club (QREC) Racecourse in Doha, the home of World Cup exhibits our dedication announced here yesterday. QREC. to maintaining and promoting The race will run at Longchamp, Nasser AI Jaidah, CEO of QPI Qatar’s heritage and culture. We Paris on October 5. said: “We are proud to be renew- are proud of our role in bringing Qatar Petroleum International ing our sponsorship of the Qatar Qatar’s best horses to the interna- Ltd has been associated with Arabian World Cup, a prestigious tional stage and showcasing one of France’s most prestigious race sporting event that demonstrotes our nation’s greatest strengths,” meeting for the past six years and the pursuit of excellence and Al Jaidah added. became the exclusive sponsor of achievement, both of which are Qatar Prix de L’Arc de the Qatar Arabian World Cup for values shared by QPI. In partner- Triomphe weekend offers a plat- the first time in 2013. ship with QREC, this world class form for QPI to come together The Group 1 event, reserved for race demonstrates our mutual with some of the world’s leading four-year-olds and over and run dedication to maintaining and energy players in appreciation of over a distance of 2,000 meters promoting Qatar’s heritage and talent and competition. was given a prize money boost culture to the highest interna- With over 2 billion people Former Ferrari chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo (right) smiles during a news conference with Fiat of more than 40% earlier this tional standards.” watching this high profile event, Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) chairman Sergio Marchinne at the Ferrari headquarters in Maranello yesterday. year to create the world’s first € “Through our parent company we are excited to expand our glo- 1 million race ever for purebred Qatar Petroleum, we have been bal reach and recognition in what Arabians. affiliated with this world-class promises to be a monumental and Sheikh Mohamed bin Faleh Al race since it began seven years historic event in the horseracing Thani, Chairman of QREC said: ago. Today, QPI is proud to be calendar. Vuelta a Espana “Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe directly sponsoring the Qatar The Qatar Arabian World weekend is one of the highlights Arabian World Cup for a consecu- Cup shares the programme of Prolific Degenkolb Stage 17 Results of our global sponsorship portfolio tive year,” he said. the second and final day of the Results from Vuelta a Espana (Ortigueira - A and we are delighted to welcome “It is a natural fit for us to Qatar Prix de I’ Arc de Troimphe Coruna, 190.7 km) yesterday Qatar Petroleum International support this prestigious sport- Weekend with the world’s rich- 1. John Degenkolb (Germany/Giant) Ltd as a partner.” ing event, as the Qatar Arabian est turf race for thoroughbreds, wins 17th stage 4:26:07” “The Qatar Arabian World Cup World Cup demonstrates the pur- which has been supported by has produce a distinguished roll suit of two core values shared by Qatar Racing & Equestrian Club A CORUNA, Spain: John Contador, a double Tour de 2. Michael Matthews (Australia/Orica) ST of honour in its relatively short QPI: excellence and achievement. since 2008. THE PENINSULA Degenkolb of Germany claimed France champion, is closing on a 3. Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland/Trek) his fourth stage victory of the third Tour of Spain crown after he 4. Jasper Stuyven (Belgium/Trek) Tour of Spain when he sprinted won Monday’s 16th stage and his 5. Roberto Ferrari (Italy/Lampre) to victory in yesterday’s 17th closest domestic rivals, Valverde 6. Koldo Fernandez (Spain/Garmin) stage as local favourite Alberto and Katusha’s Joaquim Rodriguez, 7. Geoffrey Soupe (France/FDJ.fr) Contador retained the overall cracked on the final climb. leader’s red jersey. Rodriguez is two minutes and 8. Danilo Wyss (Switzerlan /BMC Racing) Giant-Shimano rider 29 seconds off the pace in fourth 9. Damiano Caruso (Ital /Cannondale) Degenkolb pipped Australia’s overall. 10. Vicente Reynes (Spain/IAM Cycling) Dutch football Michael Matthews of Orica “The feelings have been pretty legend Johan Classification from Vuelta a Espana after GreenEdge to the line after the good and, well, it’s one day fewer,” Stage 17 yesterday Cruyff plays 190.7km trek from Ortigueira to Contador told Spanish radio sta- tennis dur- 1. Alberto Contador (Spain / Tinkoff - Saxo) the Galician city of A Coruna on tion Cadena Ser moments after 67:51:07” ing the annual the north-west coast. crossing the line yesterday. 2. A Valverde (Spain / Movistar) +1:36” Open Day of the Trek Factory Racing’s Fabian “Tomorrow’s stage is completely Johan Cruyff Cancellara of Switzerland was different and we have to get the 3. Chris Froome (Britain / Team Sky) +1:39” Foundation at third, with Tinkoff-Saxo’s motor running at top speed 4. Joaquim Rodriguez (Spain / Katusha) the Olympic Contador crossing the line with again,” added the 31-year-old. +2:29” Stadium in the pack to maintain his lead “Let’s hope the legs are working 5. Fabio Aru (Italy / Astana) +3:38” Amsterdam, The of one minute and 36 seconds well and we can keep an eye on 6. Daniel Martin (Ireland / Garmin) +6:17” Netherlands, over second-placed compatriot those at the front and make sure 7. Robert Gesink (Netherlands / Belkin) yesterday. Alejandro Valverde of Movistar. the day goes smoothly. +6:43” British Team Sky rider Chris “I think they (the remaining 8. Samuel Sanchez (Spain / BMC Racing) Froome stayed third overall, four stages) are all important, +6:55” three seconds adrift of Valverde maybe the one tomorrow will be 9. D Caruso (Italy / Cannondale) +9:10” ahead of Thursday’s mountainous a bit different but all the days are 18th stage into Monte Castrove. important now.” REUTERS 10. Daniel Navarro (Spain / Cofidis) +9:24” Cameroon Lions devour Ivorian stars JOHANNESBURG: A new in Lubumbashi in another early deflection off a defender helped Cameroon team continued a kick-off and share second place N’Jie put Cameroon ahead on 15 Giant Shimano’s great start to 2015 Africa Cup of with the Ivorians on three points. minutes only for Toure to level 10 German cyclist Nations qualifying by thrashing Sierra Leone, forced to play a minutes later when he slid in to John Degenkolb star-stacked Ivory Coast 4-1 in home fixture in DR Congo because convert a cross. Aboubakar inter- celebrates on the Yaounde yesterday. of the Ebola crisis in west Africa, cepted a headed back-pass for fire podium after win- Clinton N’Jie and Vincent are pointless having lost in Ivory past veteran goalkeeper Boubacar ning the 17th stage Aboubakar scored twice each Coast four days ago. Barry and give the home team a of the 69th edition for the Indomitable Lions with Germany-born Cameroon 2-1 half-time lead. of La Vuelta Tour of reigning African Footballer of the coach Volker Finke recently axed A loose ball was hammered Spain, a 190.7km Year Yaya Toure on target for the 13 of the World Cup squad that home by Aboubakar on 54 minutes ride from Ortigueira Elephants. fared disastrously in Brazil three and he set up N’Jie to score with Cameroon opened their Group months ago, including talisman an unstoppable close-range shot to A Coruna, D campaign with a 2-0 victory in Samuel Eto’o. Record four-time 14 minutes from time. Atusaye yesterday. the Democratic Republic of Congo African Footballer of the Year Nyondo bagged a brace as Malawi last Saturday and have a three- Eto’o retired from international edged Ethiopia 3-2 in a Blantyre point lead after two matchdays. football a week later, and young battle of Group B teams who lost The Congolese bounced back stars like N’Jie and Aboubakar their opening matches to Mali and to overcome Sierra Leone 2-0 have taken up the mantle. A Algeria respectively. AFP THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2014 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Netherland’s defender Bruno Martins Indi (right) and Czech midfielder Tomas Rosicky vie for the ball during the UEFA Euro 2016 Group A qualifying match in Prague on Tuesday night. RIGHT: Bosnia’s Tino-Sven Susic (left) fights for the ball against Cyprus’ Dimitris Christofi during their Euro 2016 qualifying match in Zenica, on Tuesday night. End of an era for shattered Italy too strong for Norway village team Striker Zaza and defender Bonucci score in 2-0 away victory in Oslo PARIS: The tiny French vil- lage football team of Luzenac, denied permission to play in OSLO: Simone Zaza and Norway, who are attempting to the second division, yester- Leonardo Bonucci were on tar- Euro 2016 qualify for a major tournament day disbanded their first team get as Italy eased to a 2-0 win for the first time since Euro 2000, while French World Cup- in their opening Euro 2016 Qualifying Results pushed their visitors back for a winning goalkeeper Fabien PARIS: Euro 2016 qualifying results on qualifying Group H fixture away spell as they sought to draw level, Barthez stepped down as Tuesday night: to Norway in Oslo on Tuesday although the closest they came managing director. Group A night. was when captain Per Ciljan Luzenac refused to play in Striker Zaza, winning just his At Astana Skjelbred fed Joshua King, but the the amateur French champi- second cap, opened the scoring Kazakhstan 0 Latvia 0 Blackburn Rovers striker flashed onship (CFA 2), as proposed by with a deflected shot in the 16th At Prague a shot over from a tight angle. the French football federation, minute before defender Bonucci Czech Republic 2 (Dockal 22, Pilar 90+1) Nyland then beat away a fizzing Barthez said. headed home just after the hour Netherlands 1 (de Vrij 55) Emanuele Giaccherini strike as The club will continue to exist mark as the Azzurri marked At Reykjavik Norway restricted Italy’s lead to a in the DHR (division d’honneur Antonio Conte’s first competi- Iceland 3 (Böðvarsson 18, Sigurdsson 76, single goal going into the interval, regionale), the amateur seventh tive game as coach with a victory Sigthórsson 77) Turkey 0 but a Conte substitution led to the division, with the second team to launch their bid to reach the Group B away side doubling their advan- now becoming the first team. European Championship finals in At Andorra la Vella tage in the 62nd minute. “I’m pulling out of the club France. Andorra 1 (Lima 6-pen) The former Juventus coach from today with (president) It was a functional perform- Wales 2 (Bale 22, 81) took off right wing-back Matteo Jerome Ducros,” Barthez said ance against a home side who At Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina Darmian, sending on Manuel after meeting with his players. were enthusiastic but lacked Bosnia-Herzegovina 1 (Ibisevic 6) Cyprus 2 Pasqual in his place, and the “You need to know when to quality in the final third, and (Christofi 45+3, 73) Fiorentina player needed less say ‘stop’, when you can no Italy extended their run without Group H than a minute to whip in a glori- longer struggle. We can no defeat in qualifiers to 41 matches At Baku ous cross from the left that was longer struggle.” stretching back eight years. Azerbaijan 1 (Nazarov 54) Bulgaria 2 headed home at the back post by Barthez added: “We were “In nine days we have already (Micanski 14, V Hristov 87) the unmarked Bonucci. received this morning by (fed- done great things,” Conte, whose At Zagreb There was no way back for eration president Noel) Le reign began with a 2-0 friendly Norway after that, and Italy Graet, who confirmed to us that Croatia 2 (Modric 46, Kramaric 81) Malta 0 win against the Netherlands last might even have increased Luzenac could play in CFA 2. At Oslo Thursday, told Rai 1 after the their lead late on, but Zaza rat- “We did all we could to get game. Norway 0 Italy 2 (Zaza 16, Bonucci 62) tled the bar after being played back into National. I became “It will not be easy for anyone And it was the 23-year-old through by strike partner Ciro president and majority share- to come and play in Norway. And who silenced the packed crowd Immobile. holder. Everything’s stalled, as I don’t remember (goalkeeper at the Ullevaal Stadion with the “It has been a dream week for well as the budget. Gianluigi) Buffon getting his goal that put Italy ahead and me,” said Zaza. “Now my objective “We take the list of pros and gloves dirty, while we created broke his scoring duck for his is to keep my place in the team. cons and there’s no comparison. numerous chances.” country. The work of a striker is tiring, but For the shareholders, it was Conte’s starting line-up showed A Mattia De Sciglio ball from if you want to play in this side you not the same project to play in six changes to the team that lost the left flank found Zaza, and with need to run.” CFA 2. We suggested to Luzenac 1-0 to Uruguay at the World Cup the Norwegian defence failing to It was the perfect start to the townhall and the town’s sport- in June in Cesare Prandelli’s last produce a challenge, he worked qualifying campaign for Italy, ing association to play in CFA 2, game at the helm, with Sassuolo his way into the box before send- and one that sets them up nicely but they refused.” striker Zaza taking advantage of ing in a left-foot shot that took a for a double-header at home to Italy’s Simone Zaza (7) celebrates with his team-mates after scoring Luzenac’s erstwhile mid- the absence due to suspension significant deflection off Havard Azerbaijan and away to Malta against Norway during their Euro 2016 qualifying match at Ullevaal fielder Nicolas Dieuze ear- of Mario Balotelli to line up in Nordtveit to beat goalkeeper next month before a stiffer test Stadium in Oslo on Tuesday night. lier bemoaned the stark fact attack. Orjan Nyland at his near post. in Croatia in November. AFP that many players were now unemployed. “The second team becomes the first team. The players are freed from their contracts and Pilar late strike condemns are now in the jobmarket,” he told AFP. “Who would have thought that five months after our pro- Netherlands to defeat motion to Ligue 2, we’d be say- ing goodbye to each other in a car park?” lamented Dieuze. PRAGUE: Vaclav Pilar came system the Dutch had used in Daryl Janmaat fumbled a header The ex-Toulouse player, who off the bench to score a stop- Brazil but switched back to his back towards his own goalkeeper had been at Luzenac for two page-time winner as the Czech favoured 4-3-3 after the first Jasper Cillessen. The ball hit seasons, added: “I feel a lot of Republic beat the Netherlands Czech goal. the post, rebounded past a div- sadness about what’s been done 2-1 in their opening Euro 2016 “The system wasn’t an issue, ing Cillessen, and Viktoria Pilsen over recent years. qualifying Group A fixture on the Czechs scored after individual winger Pilar had an easy job send- “They’re sending us to DHR Tuesday night. errors on the right side. When ing it into the gaping net. with a great kick up the bum. In Borek Dockal put the hosts the defence makes such mistakes, It was a first win for the Czechs two weeks, we’ll no longer speak ahead midway through the first you can’t blame either of the sys- under Pavel Vrba, who took over about Luzenac. half but a 55th-minute equaliser tems we played today. as coach in January, and they will “The players, like many peo- from Stefan de Vrij looked set to “The Czechs didn’t let us cre- aim to build on it when they go ple in France, will go down to give Holland a share of the spoils ate many chances; we had some, to Turkey and Kazakhstan next the dole office.” in Prague, only for Pilar to strike but they didn’t let us score. We month. Luzenac (pop. 649) had at the death. can only draw a lesson from this “I am thrilled, perfectly happy caught the public’s attention The Dutch finished third at opening game.” with the 2-1 win, although it with their fairytale rise from the World Cup in Brazil but have The visitors went behind in the wasn’t easy and we were a bit obscurity, winning promotion since seen Guus Hiddink replace 22nd minute when David Lafata lucky at the end,” said Vrba, who from the third tier of French Louis van Gaal as coach and his found Sparta Prague team-mate started with seven players from football last season. second spell as national coach had Dockal, who scored with a superb the Czech top flight. The Professional Football begun with a 2-0 friendly defeat left-footed volley from 18 metres “We scored a beautiful goal that League (LFP) since ruled that to Italy last Thursday. that bounced off the post into the helped us a lot. In the second half they could not take their place Here, without several of the net. we waited, it would have been sui- in Ligue 2 because their ground Oranje’s World Cup stars, includ- De Vrij equalised in the 55th cide to play in their half. did not conform to the required ing Arjen Robben, Klaas-Jan minute with a header that flew “We tried to succeed on the safety standards. Huntelaar and Ron Vlaar, he across the box and past Chelsea break and reaped the bonus of Last season, the club from oversaw Holland’s first competi- ‘keeper Petr Cech following a the winning goal.” the Pyrenees, whose own Stade tive defeat over 90 minutes since perfect cross from Manchester Holland, who won nine and Paul Fedou has only one stand Croatia’s forward Andrej Kramaric celebrates after scoring a goal dur- Euro 2012. United new-boy Daley Blind. drew one of 10 qualifiers for the and 400 seats, played their home ing the Euro 2016 group H qualifying match against Malta at Maksimir “It’s a bitter loss when you lose But the hosts, who had failed World Cup, face Kazakhstan games at nearby Foix, where the Stadium in Zagreb on Tuesday night. in the last minute,” said Hiddink, to qualify for the World Cup, kept at home and Iceland away in capacity was just 3,000. AFP who started with the same 5-3-2 pushing and got the winner when October. AFP THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27

Cycling: No world Qatar’s Al Sadd, El Jaish championships for Contador

MADRID: Two-time Tour de France champion Alberto prepare for tough semis Contador (pictured) will not compete in the world road race championships later this month, IHF Super Globe: Al Sadd play Flensburg, El Jaish take on FC Barcelona he said late on Tuesday. The 31-year-old -- speaking during the rest day in the Tour DOHA: Qatar’s handball giants of Spain which he leads -- said Al Sadd and El Jaish will be IHF Super Globe the course in keeping one eye on a possible Al Sadd player Ponferrada final clash when they take on Today’s Semi-finals Alsayad Hussain in the north German powerhouse Flensburg aims at the net east of Spain and FC Barcelona of Spain 6.00pm: Al Sadd vs was not against Sydney respectively in today’s IHF Flensburg suited to his University HC Super Globe semi-finals. strengths. Al Sadd take on Flensburg in 8.15pm: El Jaish vs FC team during “The the first semi-final at the impos- Barcelona their IHF Super world cham- ing Qatar Handball Association Globe game at pionship Complex inside Lekhwiya Sports Qatar Handball course is not Stadium. Placement Association in any way In the second semi-final, El Complex suited to my Jaish will face Spanish giants and Matches Today in Doha on style and I FC Barcelona - and the defending Tuesday. Al think other champions - in a game that kicks- 2.00pm: Al Ahli vs Sadd won riders who Esperance Tunis off at 8:15pm at the same venue. 32-23 to reach will be able to help (the Spanish Al Sadd qualified for the semi- team) more should go.” 4.00pm: Taubate vs Sydney the semi-finals final after a 32-23 victory against I prefer to give my place up to University HC which take underdogs Sydney University HC place today at another rider.” on Tuesday. Venue: Qatar Handball the same venue. The race on September 28 is From the very beginning, the Association Complex in a 254km ride which will see the host side dominated the match. Duhail riders complete 14 laps of 18.2km. After the first 15 minutes, Contador, who has never won coach Mongi Bananni’s side made the world title, said that despite a lot of easy fast-break goals. discipline, courage, enthusiasm. being in the lead, much could Sydney fought brave but without Finally I am very happy to reach happen to prevent him winning a a realistic chance to bring the the semi-finals.” Al Sadd player third Tour of Spain between now favourite in trouble. Janko Kevic said: “We had to play and Sunday when the race cli- H E Salah bin Ghanem bin The match stayed the same with 100%. Congratulations to my maxes in Santiago de Compostella. after the break. Al Sadd was the team. We prepared very hard the Nasser Al Ali, Minister of Youth He has a 1min 36sec advantage better team with more power, last few months and the round and Sports, and Dr Hassan over his compatriot Alejandro more individual possibilities and of the best four is the result. Moustafa, President of the Valverde, with Britain’s 2013 the better physical strength. On Tuesday, FC Barcelona beat International Handball Federation, Tour de France champion Chris Nevertheless the team from Esperance Tunis 37-23 to sign in meet the youngest volunteer, Froome third, a further three sec- Down Under performed with for the semi-finals. 15-year-old Mohammed onds in arrears, moral and was a good competitor FC Barcelona coach Xavier Mahmoud Saffar, during one of “There is a medium size moun- until the end of the match. said: “It was our best game in this the matches at Qatar Handball tain climb in Galicia which is Finally Al Sadd celebrated the young season. It is important for Association Complex in Doha. very demanding and I will have victory and the qualification for us to reach the semi-final. I am to be on the lookout for attacks the round of the best four teams. happy with my players. Now we and there is also the time-trial Coach Bananni said: “It was not hope to reach also the final.” (9.7km) on the final day,” he said. an easy match. Sydney played with THE PENINSULA REUTERS No quick technology fix for problem bowlers, says ICC

MELBOURNE: The ICC is Australia’s National Cricket cautiously optimistic that wear- Centre in Brisbane next week and able sensors can provide the Bangladesh paceman is likely to entail far more time technological breakthrough poring over data in laboratories needed to stamp out illegal reported for suspect action than putting bowlers through bowling actions but does not their paces. Wyscout CEO Matteo Campodonico, QSL’s Ahmed Al Harmi, Chief of expect them to be ready for trial DHAKA: Paceman Al-Amin Hossain (pictured) has become the If the final phase proves suc- Competition and Football Development, and Miguel Heitor, Football in matches before mid-2015. second Bangladeshi bowler to be reported for a suspect action cessful and the sensors are ready Development Supervisor, at a press conference in Doha yesterday. Geoff Allardice, the on the team’s disastrous tour of the West Indies, to be road-tested in matches, International Cricket Council’s cricket’s world governing body said yesterday. their application is likely to open general manager of cricket, said A day after Pakistan’s top off-spinner Saeed Ajmal up a whole new can of worms, in an interview yesterday that was suspended over his action, the International Allardice conceded. Qatar Stars League, Wyscout there has been lots of progress in Cricket Council said Al-Amin would come under Keeping the devices powered using the technology but stum- scrutiny following concerns raised by match officials and capable of feeding data to Football in software agreement bling blocks remain to deploying during the first Test in St Vincent. officials on and off the field will it in matches. “He is required to undergo testing within 21 days,” take “a lot of engineering”. DOHA: The Qatar Stars League (QSL) put pen to paper with The ICC on Tuesday banned the ICC said in a statement, adding that Al-Amin How the data is shared - Wyscout – the league’s official video player scouting and player data off-spinner Saeed Ajmal, would be “permitted to continue bowling in inter- whether after each bowl, at the software service providers. Pakistan’s most prolific test national cricket until the results of the testing are known”. end of each over or after a day’s The agreement was signed by Wyscout’s founder and CEO Matteo wicket-taker among active play- The 24-year-old, who was only playing in his fourth Test match, play - is also likely to be a matter Campodonico and QSL’s Ahmed Al-Harmi, the Chief of Competition ers, after biomechanic tests found is the second Bangladeshi bowler to be reported during the West of fierce debate between the ICC and Football Development along with Miguel Heitor -Football all his deliveries broke the limit Indies tour after off-spinner Sohag Gazi was cited last week during and stakeholders. Development Supervisor. for straightening of the elbow the one-day series. “In terms of absolute accuracy, The agreement between the League and the Italian based football joint. Gazi has now left the Caribbean and is due to undergo tests in the question is whether it could software company will see all clubs gain access to this state-of-the The latest in a string of suspen- Australia next week that could result in a suspension if his action be used as a sole decision maker art database that currently covers over 50 countries worldwide with sions for internationals over their is deemed illegal. on the field,” Allardice said. “It’s over 200,000 players. bowling actions, Ajmal’s ban has Speaking to reporters after Ajmal’s suspension, 23-year-old Gazi too early to tell.” Al Harmi said that he was proud to bring on-board such a power- fanned fears that ‘chucking’ is rife said admitted he was “a bit nervous” about the outcome of the tests Though technology has been ful tool from one of the biggest football companies in the world. He at the highest level of the game which could potentially see him ruled out of next year’s World Cup. credited for making the game stressed that this agreement would enrich and enhance the league in but it has also been applauded as Bangladesh lost the first Test on Tuesday by 10 wickets follow- fairer, it has also been blamed a myriad of ways. a timely crackdown on a highly ing a first innings double century by West Indies opener Kraigg for some howling decisions that “It’s one of the biggest companies in the world for finding new talents contentious and often elusive Brathwaite, while they also suffered a whitewash in the preceding have irked players, fans and offi- and recruiting players. The software means that any QSL club can log problem. three ODIs. REUTERS cials alike. in and see current players from around the world. This agreement will Where umpires have often The Decision Review System, directly help the clubs and we encourage them to use it to recruit new been reluctant to report their which employs video and audio signings, Wyscout has a comprehensive database and the power of the suspicions to match officials, the mid-2015 at the earliest. But the Australia’s cricket board. The technologies to verify or correct software is quite impressive.” ICC hopes technology can elimi- science is encouraging.” mounting of the sensors also has decisions by umpires out in the He added: “In addition there are a lot of other useful features that nate subjectivity from the equa- The sensors, which are yet to be perfected so the data field, has proved controversial the clubs will be able to utilize to their advantage, such as medical files, tion, making violations clear-cut attached to the bowler’s upper cannot be compromised to an and India, the game’s most pow- transfer news and the price of players. I should also mention that there through measured, real-time arm and forearm have reached intolerable extent. erful association, refuses its use in will be three workshops to help explain the system to our clubs. The data. the point where they can success- “If you’re in a match situation, any bilateral series involving the first workshop will start on the 15th of September at 10am in the Four The ICC has been working with fully detect the moment when a the mounting of the sensors of the national team. Seasons Hotel. This is just the first phase of the project. The second Australian researchers to develop ball is released in a delivery. arm has to be so that they don’t Allardice said the national phase will be to help promote our players here and abroad, we will be wearable “inertial” sensors that While that much is already shift position. If they do, then the associations would be queuing up very happy to see this happen.” can measure bowlers’ actions useful in analysis, the sensors still calibration is disturbed,” added to use the wearable sensors if they Al Harmi said: “We started initially to improve the level of football against the permissible limit for lack the capability to measure the the Australian. proved effective, however. and in the future I think you will see the positive benefits for our clubs.” over two years. arm’s straightness during the The sensors have already been “It really is to help the game Campodonico the CEO of Wyscout said: “When I was young, I had The programme has reached bowling arc, a key to determin- tested on youth cricketers, with of cricket, it won’t be a money- a coach who used video footage to improve my football playing ability. key milestones and is now in its ing the fine line between a legal players at the Under-19 World making exercise,” he said. This simple concept had a positive affect and I can still remember third and final phase but chal- action and chucking. Cup in Dubai providing data dur- “We see that it might be use- exactly the advice he gave me because he showed me in a visual way. lenges remain, believes Allardice. “At this stage we’re looking to ing net sessions. ful for teams who can take it to It was simple but effective.” “There’s a fair bit of work to automatically detect the position Crunching the data still training sessions. Campodonico spoke about how technology can improve the level of do before we’re going to be able of the arm at the release with required the support of video “The member boards of the football and that this agreement would be the beginning of what he to use them in a match setting,” some software that is receiving analysis which, despite advances ICC are all grappling with how hoped would be a long and fruitful relationship. he said. the signals from the sensors... and in digital image resolution, to deal with and identify bowlers “In football the level can change from year to year. The software “This next stage is probably how to capture that without any remains a process clouded by with (problems). allows clubs not only to buy top players but create a truly competitive going to take 18 months to two (competing) information,” said subjectivity. “Not just in the peak com- league, not just to improve the level of one or two clubs. This software years. You wouldn’t expect it to Allardice, a former first-class The third phase of the pro- petitions but also in the grades package will be available to all 14 QSL clubs and create a fair environ- be trialled in a match setting until batsman and senior manager at gramme is set to kick off at below.” REUTERS ment for all.” THE PENINSULA Thursday 11 September 2014 16 Dhu’l-Qa’da 1435 Volume 19 Number 6185 Sport Price: QR2

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MANCHESTER, England: “We need better legislation call to the political authorities Between 60 and 80 countries throughout the world, but I don’t and sports movements to work have reported allegations of think we will ever have one glo- with those whose responsibility match-fixing for each of the bal law covering match-fixing but is to investigate these crimes. last three years, the head of the all the authorities need to work “Sport must govern itself Interpol-FIFA initiative set up closer with each other to stop it properly and positive develop- to fight the crime said yesterday. happening.” ments have been made in the last John Abbott, who is also lead- During the same debate, enti- decade but we urgently need a ing Interpol’s and FIFA’s fight tled “Fixing Football’s Dark Side”, unified, credible, concerted effort against irregular betting, told Emanuel Medeiros, the head of now. delegates at the Soccerex Global the Qatar-based International “It’s not acceptable that sport- Convention that far tougher legis- Centre for Sport Security, told ing fraud is considered a crime lation is needed worldwide to fight delegates at least one professional in only five European countries. the crime. European soccer club is being run We need concrete, robust regula- “It is a global problem and it is by an organised crime syndicate tion of the sports betting market Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani is seen with the winning horse at the Qatar Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe at the showing no signs of abating. through a front company. which at the moment does not Longchamp racetrack near Paris in this October 7, 2013 file picture. Treve, owned by Sheikh Joaan and ridden by “Match-fixing itself is not new, “I have evidence that this is the exist. France’s Thierry Jarnet, emulated Zarkava in landing the French Oaks, Prix Vermeille and Arc in the same season. a Liverpool-Manchester United case but I cannot say which club “We need better regulation, This year’s Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe will be held on October 5. SEE ALSO PAGE 25 game was fixed in the early years or which country although these good governance, enhanced pre- of the 20th century, but the really are legitimate questions,” he told vention and education and a seri- big change is that professional reporters afterwards. ous international approach. Only criminals have got involved for “This not new, we have been if we do these (things) can we put fraud purposes. aware of these kinds of develop- an end to football being dragged Key week for Qatar Prix “We have evidence of organised ments since 2003 but there is an into shame.” crime groups in China, Russia, the ongoing police investigation. It’s a The session included the sign- Balkans, the United States and very serious matter.” ing of an agreement between Italy making substantial money. Medeiros, the former chief Sportradar, which monitors the Abbott claimed billions of executive of the European world’s betting industry, identi- de l’Arc de Triomphe dollars were involved, adding: Professional Football Leagues fying fraud and unusual patterns “Sports governing bodies and (EPFL), told reporters after the of behaviour, and the Hong Kong football associations need to get debate that all sport needed “a FA. real about prevention. wake up call” and could not be Mark Sutcliffe, Hong Kong FA hopefuls: Al Boenain “Many sports, of course, are complacent about the threat chief executive, said he was hor- affected by match-fixing, but foot- that match-fixing and irregular rified to discover an Under-16 ball, the global game, is top of the betting could have if it was not invitational friendly tournament DOHA: Races at Doncaster league and cricket is second. tackled. in Hong Kong was being targeted in Britain and Longchamp “The extent of the problem is “It is no longer a silent cancer. by match-fixers. Racecourse in France this that each year for the last three It is widespread and very evident “If it is infiltrating that level week will be key for those keen years between 60 and 80 coun- that this is a deadly cancer for of the game at that age group, it on a shot at the Qatar Prix de tries have reported allegations of sport. does not bear thinking about,” he l’Arc de Triomphe glory next match-fixing. “I am here to issue a wake-up said. REUTERS month, a top official of Racing and Equestrian Club (QREC) said yesterday. Man United The Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe weekend - backed announce record by QREC - in Paris will bring together the world’s most tal- £433.2m revenue ented thoroughbreds for a record purse of ¤1m reserved for the winner on October 5. LONDON: Despite their on- More than ¤5m will be up for pitch travails last season, grabs in the Qatar Prix de l’Arc Manchester United yesterday de Triomphe, making it the most announced a 19% rise in annual richly rewarded turf race in the revenue to a record £433.2m world. This is the total prize ($698.8m, 539.6m euros). money allocated, which is split United floundered in their among the first three runners first season after the retirement past the post. of long-serving manager Alex Sami Jassim Al Boenain, the Ferguson, finishing seventh in the QREC General Manager, said Premier League and sacking his yesterday: “We can’t really reveal successor, David Moyes, but they the top names for our race. We continued to thrive commercially. will have to wait for races at Helped by a blockbuster £750m Doncaster on September 13 and 10-year deal with Adidas, the club the races at Longchamp this reported a 49 percent increase in week to get a feel about the form sponsorship revenue. of the horses ahead of Qatar Prix Overall profit fell sharply, from de l’Arc de Triomphe .” £146.4m to £23.9m, but mainly Al Boenain added: “These two because United had received a races will be key for all those Sami Jassim Al Boenain, Qatar Racing and Equestrian Club (QREC) one-off tax credit from American wanting a shot at the world’s General Manager during a press conference in Doha yesterday. assets worth £155m in the previ- richest race for Arabian thor- ous year. oughbreds. We will know more - will be expecting another house record-breaking purse. As part “We are very proud of the about the names once the races full of 60,000 spectators at the of this partnership, another results achieved in fiscal year take place at Doncaster and racecourse, plus 1 billion tel- equally prestigious race was cre- 2014 as we once again generated Longchamp.” evision viewers in more than 45 ated: the Qatar Arabian World record revenues,” said executive He added: “I can tell you that countries. Cup, which is reserved for pure- vice-chairman Ed Woodward in we will have the best of the On October 4, 17 interna- bred Arabs and takes place at a statement. horses (in Paris). It is one of the tional-level races, including Longchamp racecourse on the “With Louis van Gaal at the UEFA President Michel Platini speaks during the UEFA meeting ‘Respect most prestigious horse racing the Qatar Arabian World Cup, same day as the Qatar Prix de helm as manager, and the recent Diversity 2014’ in Rome, Italy, yesterday. The conference was organised event in the world. The prize which crowns the world’s best l’Arc de Triomphe. signing of some of the world’s lead- by UEFA to combat racism in football. money of 1m Euros tells you how Purebred Arab, will be staged at Since then, new agreements ing players to further strengthen important this race is for jockeys Longchamp Racecourse. have been signed which have our squad, we are very excited and owners.” A total of 13 Group races, prolonged the sponsorship of the about the future and believe it’s League, United expect their that United paid out £5.2m in Al Boenain said the rich his- bringing together the world’s Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe the start of a new chapter in the income to fall to between £385m compensation to former Everton tory of the race weekend will best jockeys and most talented weekend until 2022. club’s history. and £395m over the course of the manager Moyes, who was dis- ensure another capacity crowd competitors, will be vying for The QREC continues to prove “Louis’s footballing philosophy current season. missed in April, and some mem- on October 3 and 4. a total prize bag of euros 7.9m its commitment to sponsor- fits very well with Manchester They invested around £150m bers of his coaching staff. “This race is almost 100 years over the weekend. ing races reserved for purebred United and he has an impressive on new players during the close- United are without a win after old. It has great following the In 2008, France Galop and Arabs in France by financing 4 track record of success through- season transfer window, including three Premier League games this world over,” Al Boenain said. REC signed a partnership preparatory races and increas- out his career, winning league a British-record £59.7m swoop for season and were knocked out of “The world wants to be there agreement for the Prix de l’Arc ing the prize fund for the Qatar titles with every club he has man- Argentina international winger the League Cup following a 4-0 for the weekend,” he said. de Triomphe, thus embellish- Arabian World Cup. aged.” Partly due to their non- Angel di Maria. The figures loss to third-tier Milton Keynes REC - the host of the event ing this legendary race with a THE PENINSULA participation in the Champions released yesterday also revealed Dons. AFP